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Metahistory: the historical imagination in nineteenth-century Europe

White, Hayden V., 1928-

Year: 1973.

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press.

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Frontmatter

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

PART ONE THE RECEIVED TRADITION: THE ENLIGHTENMENT AND THE PROBLEM OF HISTORICAL CONSCIOUSNESS

chapter 1 The Historical Imagination between Metaphor and Irony

chapter 2 Hegel: The Poetics of History and the Way beyond Irony

PART TWO FOUR KINDS OF "REALISM" IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY HISTORICAL WRITING

chapter 3 Michelet: Historical Realism as Romance

chapter 4 Ranke: Historical Realism as Comedy

chapter 5 Tocqueville: Historical Realism as Tragedy

chapter 6 Burckhardt: Historical Realism as Satire

PART THREE THE REPUDIATION OF "REALISM" IN LATE NINETEENTH-CENTURY PHILOSOPHY OF HISTORY

chapter 7 Historical Consciousness and the Rebirth of Philosophy of History

chapter 8 Marx: The Philosophical Defense of History in the Metonymical Mode

chapter 9 Nietzsche: The Poetic Defense of History in the Metaphorical Mode

chapter 10 Croce: The Philosophical Defense of History in the Ironic Mode

CONCLUSION

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

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Title:

Metahistory : the historical imagination in nineteenth-century Europe Hayden White.

Author:

White, Hayden V., 1928-

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Metahistory : the historical imagination in nineteenth-century Europe Hayden White.
White, Hayden V., 1928-
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1973.

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• Historiography -- History

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