Hayden White

The Ethics of Narrative

Essays on History, Literature, and Theory, 1998-2007
Herausgeber: Doran, Robert

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"The first in a two-volume anthology of Hayden White's uncollected essays from the last two decades of his life, revealing White as a public intellectual. It places White's thought in context, explaining its major themes, sources, and frames of reference, and features five previously unpublished lectures as well as more complete versions of several published essays"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 444g
• ISBN-13: 9781501764745
• ISBN-10: 1501764748
• Artikelnr.: 63820419

Autorenporträt

Hayden White. edited and with an introduction by Robert Doran. foreword by Judith Butler

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Hayden White, History, and the Ethics of Narrative
1. The Problem with Modern Patriotism
2. Symbols and Allegories of Temporality
3. The Discourse of Europe and the Search for a European Identity
4. Catastrophe, Communal Memory, and Mythic Discourse: The Uses of Myth in
the Reconstruction of Society
5. Figura and Historical Subalternation
6. The Westernization of World History
7. On Transcommunality and Models of Community
8. Anomalies of the Historical Museum or, History as Utopian Space
9. Figural Realism in Witness Literature: On Primo Levi's Se questo è un
uomo
10. The Elements of Totalitarianism: On Hannah Arendt
11. The Metaphysics of Western Historiography: Cosmos, Chaos, and Sequence
in Historiological Representation
12. Historicality as a Trope of Political Discourse: Rhetoric, Ethics,
Politics
13. Exile and Abjection
14. The Dark Side of Art History: On Melancholy
15. Against Historical Realism: A Reading of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace