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Hayden White

    July 12, 1928 – March 5, 2018

    Hayden White, a historian operating within the tradition of literary criticism, is renowned for his seminal work on historical imagination. He meticulously analyzed the narratives of 19th and 20th-century historians and philosophers, proposing that historical discourse is a form of fiction classifiable by its structure and linguistic use. White challenged the notion of objective historical accounts, arguing that historians employ unarticulated assumptions in selecting and interpreting events. His work fundamentally altered the theory of history by applying rhetorical tropes to narrative discourse, revealing deeper insights into authorial attitudes and historical contexts.

    Hayden White
    Tropika diskursu : kulturně kritické eseje
    Metahistory
    The Content of the Form
    The Ethics of Narrative
    Figural Realism
    Metahistory
    • Metahistory

      The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe

      In White's view, beyond the surface level of the historical text, there is a deep structural, or latent, content that is generally poetic and specifically linguistic in nature. This deeper content - the metahistorical element - indicates what an appropriate historical explanation should be.

      Metahistory
    • Figural Realism

      • 222 pages
      • 8 hours of reading

      It is because historical discourse is actualized in its culturally significant form as a specific kind of writing that we may consider the relevance of literary theory to both the theory and the practice of historiography.

      Figural Realism
    • The second volume of The Ethics of Narrative completes the project of bringing together nearly all of Hayden White's uncollected essays from the last two decades of his life, including articles, essays, and previously unpublished lectures. As in the first volume, volume two features White's trenchant articulations of his influential theories, as well as his explorations of a wide range of ideas and authors at the frontiers of critical theory, literature, and historical studies. These include the concept of utopia in history, modernism and postmodernism, constructivism, the conceptualization of historical periods such as "the Sixties" and "the Enlightenment," the representation of the Holocaust in scholarly and literary writing, as well as essays on Frank Kermode, Saul Friedländer, and Krzysztof Pomian.

      The Ethics of Narrative
    • The Content of the Form

      Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation

      • 264 pages
      • 10 hours of reading

      "[White] has clearly made significant advances in laying a foundation for a better understanding of the intricate interaction between narrative representation and what it purports to represent in both history and literature."--American Historical Review.

      The Content of the Form
    • Metahistory

      Die historische Einbildungskraft im 19. Jahrhundert in Europa

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      Ausgehend von seiner Untersuchung der großen Historiographen des 19. Jahrhunderts entwirft Hayden White eine formale Theorie der Arbeit des Historikers, die den unvermeidlich poetischen Charakter der Geschichtsschreibung herausarbeitet. Die Debatte, die mit diesem großen Buch angestoßen wurde, wirkt bis heute nach.

      Metahistory
    • Kniha Tropika diskursu Haydena Whitea, který je znám svým pojetím "metahistorie", jež klade důraz na narativní povahu historického diskursu, patří v humanitních vědách již ke klasickým dílům. Jde svým způsobem o autorovu originální "rozpravu o metodě", teorii toho, co by bylo možné nazvat tropologickým rozuměním. Její význam se ani zdaleka neomezuje na techniku literárního rozboru či interpretaci historie, jejím základem je filosoficky fundované, syntetické pojetí kognitivního vztahu k realitě, prostředkované právě "diskursem". V tomto smyslu je Whiteova kniha svébytnou a důležitou alternativou jak k tradiční i moderní hermeneutice (H. G. Gadamer), tak například k Ricoeurově narativnímu porozumění. Tropus podle Whitea není ani ozdoba řeči, ani technika omezující se na umělecký jazyk, nýbrž nástroj, jehož funkcí je snaha o adekvátnější uchopení popisované skutečnosti. Interpretace historických, literárních či teoretických textů se pak neukazuje jako (subjektivní) omezení, nýbrž jako obecná podmínka kulturní racionality.

      Tropika diskursu : kulturně kritické eseje