Revisiting History in Hayden White’s Philosophy

Mehdi Ghasemi

SAGE Open, 2014, vol. 4, issue 3, 2158244014542585

Abstract: In his “Historical Fiction, Fictional History, and Historical Reality,†Hayden White writes “What we postmodernists are against is a professional historiography.†This statement inspired me to reexamine a number of White’s oeuvre from the perspective of postmodernism so as to find out in what ways and to what extent White is a postmodernist. In addition, I highlight a number of preoccupations of professional historiography and argue how White deploys the discourse of postmodernism to dismantle them.

Keywords: Hayden White; postmodernism; professional historiography; rehistoricization; optionalism; deconstruction (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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