Revisiting History in Hayden White’s Philosophy:

SAGE Open

Mehdi Ghasemi¹ 

关键词: Hayden White;    postmodernism;    professional historiography;    rehistoricization;    optionalism;    deconstruction;   

DOI  :  10.1177/2158244014542585

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

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.

【 授权许可】

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