Revisiting History in Hayden White’s Philosophy

Ghasemi, Mehdi

doi:10.1177/2158244014542585

Sage Open

2014

DOI: 10.1177/2158244014542585

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Revisiting History in Hayden White’s Philosophy

Mehdi Ghasemi

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.

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Revisiting History in Hayden White’s Philosophy

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Traditional Wisdom in Land Use and Resource Management Among the Lugbara of Uganda

Traditional Wisdom in Land Use and Resource Management Among the Lugbara of Uganda

Peace in Pieces: A Postmodern Study of Suzan-Lori Parks’s Venus

Methodological Principles of American Foreign Policy Traditions Study: Intellectual History Opportunities

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