A Bedrock of Order: Hayden White's Linguistic Humanism

Kellner, Hans

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“…Figurative devices use language to ‘spatialise time and temporalise space’ (Kellner 1980: 18). One is collapsed into the other.…”

Section: Case Study: the Work Of Bar‐yosef Goring‐morris And Henry Dmentioning

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“…Joyce (2002) has seen White's work as linking each trope to a period or spirit of the age – and White's vision as one of social forms dominating each author's use of tropes. Others (Kellner 1980) have suggested that his work implies a radical responsibility for the tropes we use and the history we write (see Pluciennik 1999 for a fuller discussion of these and other issues relating to White's work and to narrative theory generally). But regardless of one's ideas about the ways in which different tropes are chosen, inherited, or imposed, White's methodology provides a valuable means of exploring the fundamental structuring of archaeological narratives.…”

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Constructing Prehistory: Lithic Analysis in the Levantine Epipalaeolithic

Pirie

2004

Royal Anthropological Inst

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This study explores the way in which our picture of the Levantine Epipalaeolithic has been created, investigating the constructs that take us from found objects to coherent narrative about the world. Drawing on the treatment of chipped stone, the fundamental raw material of prehistoric narratives, it examines the use of figurative devices -of metaphor, metonymy, and synecdoche -to make the connection between the world and the words we need to describe it. The work of three researchers is explored in a case study of the Middle Epipalaeolithic with the aim of showing how different research goals and methodologies have created characteristics for the period that are so entrenched in discourse as to have become virtually invisible.Yet the definition of distinct cultures with long-lasting traditions, the identification of two separate ethnic trajectories linked to separate environmental zones, and the analysis of climate as the key driver of change all rest on analytical manoeuvres to transform objects into data.

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“…Figurative devices use language to ‘spatialise time and temporalise space’ (Kellner 1980: 18). One is collapsed into the other.…”

Section: Case Study: the Work Of Bar‐yosef Goring‐morris And Henry Dmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Constructing Prehistory: Lithic Analysis in the Levantine Epipalaeolithic

Pirie

2004

Royal Anthropological Inst

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“…27 His obviously passionate commitments are noted as back-ground information with the implication that they are not crucial for understanding the essence of his formal system. 28 Or he is criticized for not clarifying what our comportment towards the past should be, as if he had never addressed the issue. 29 Consequently, the picture we have of White is curiously bifurcated: on the one hand, the wayward historian under Nietzsche's spell with the consequent dubious politics and seeming inability to guard the historical integrity of the Holocaust's facticity 30 ; on the other, the lopsided formalist whose analyses of historical rhetoric appear as intellectually sterile as they are politically impotent.…”

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1. Hayden White, Traumatic Nationalism, and the Public Role of History1

Moses

2005

History and Theory

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A. DIRK MOSESThe real dividing line between the philosophers would seem to lie, then, somewhere between those who want to use history to curb the impulse to totalistic (or metaphysical or ethical) generalization and those who want to use it to cultivate that impulse. 2 ABSTRACT This article argues that Hayden White's vision of historiography can be appropriated for the "public use of history" in many ethnic and nationalist conflicts today. That is, it can be used to provide the theoretical arguments that justify the instrumentalization of historical memory by nationalist elites in their sometimes genocidal struggles with their opponents. Historians so far have not adequately understood the implications or possible uses of White's historiography, and therefore to that extent his case remains unrefuted. In the event, White has anticipated and held his ground against possible counter-arguments. The only way to answer him is to ask the question that he poses of historians: what is the purpose of history for "life"? The essay argues that Max Weber's advice to scholars to pose difficult questions and demand clarity about the implications and consequences of specific commitments is morally more responsible than White's in the current climate of ethnic and national conflict. The historical is not opposed to the ethical, as White maintains; the historical is the ethical. Historians should engage in "strong evaluations" (Richard T. Vann) in the construction of "bridging" narratives between historical communities, rather than redemptive narratives of liberation that often entail zero-sum claims to contested land.

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“…Podľa Hermana Paula predovšetkým Whitov existencialistický postoj je kľúčový pre pochopenie jeho náhľadu na celý rad problémov spojených s písaním o dejinách[Paul 2011]. Domnievame sa, že Whitova inklinácia k prácam existencialistov (najmä Jeana-Paula Sartra a Alberta Camusa) mohla súvisieť s reflektovaným pragmatickým postojom intelektuála, ktorý využíval reflexiu na hľadanie zodpovedných postojov a následného konania.3 Paradoxne tento štrukturalistický a "eklektický" model štvoritej tetrády bol v určitom protiklade k Whitovmu humanistickému historizmu, ktorý zdôrazňoval prirodzenosť "neschematizujúcej" tvorby historikov[Kellner 1980]. …”

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Haydena Whita – živé písanie o dejinách

Such¹

2019

Historická Sociologie

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The author of the article points out the main shifts in Hayden White's reflection on narrative history writing. These shifts are related to his emphasis on the role of tropes and figures in dealing with the problem of narrative representation in the past. In the author's view, White's works challenge a traditional understanding of history, while stressing terminal validity and plurality in narrative representations of historical reality. He also points out that Czech and Slovak scholars used some aspects of Hayden White's understanding of history for explaining different representations of history.

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A Bedrock of Order: Hayden White's Linguistic Humanism

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Constructing Prehistory: Lithic Analysis in the Levantine Epipalaeolithic

Constructing Prehistory: Lithic Analysis in the Levantine Epipalaeolithic

1. Hayden White, Traumatic Nationalism, and the Public Role of History1

Haydena Whita – živé písanie o dejinách

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