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Hayden Whites Existentialism and Philosophy of History

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Moskalewicz M.

Historyka Studia Metodologiczne

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2007-2008

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vol. 37-38

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Poczucie czy zanik historii w poezji po 2000 roku?

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Chojnowski Z.

Prace Literaturoznawcze

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2015

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issue 3

251-266

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The article Historical awareness or oblivion in 21th century's poetry? ponders upon the writers' attitudes towards historical heritage. Different generations' poetry has, on one hand, a more relative view of history and mistrust of historiography and historical studies, and, on the other, contemplating the times that have past - especially the 20th century - through family matters. Historical awareness is strong in the writers for whom the imperative of engagement in the community (family, local, societal, national, European, Christian) is still important. Those writers tend to view the connection to history as a poetic game, and/or a moral obligation. The 21th century's poetry brought back the postulate of speaking the history that has been denied for political-ideological reasons, which is being realized today.

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Polityka pisarstwa historycznego i polityka literatury. Hayden White i Jacques Rancière czytają Ericha Auerbacha

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Muchowski J.

Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki

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2022

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issue 1

69–87

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Hayden White and Jacques Rancière used Erich Auerbach’s approach to the history of realistic European literature to construct their own theoretical discussions of historical and literary writing. White thus formulated the concepts of a figural relationship, modernist and figural realism, while Rancière critically commented on the undemocratic historiography of the Annales school and sought egalitarian writings in Western literature. White’s and Rancière’s readings of Auerbach will be used to compare their two theoretical approaches. The purpose of this analysis will be, first, to critically compare some of their contributions, and second, to incorporate Rancière’s claims into the English-language debate on the theory of history. I will try to answer the following question: how in their commentaries on the works of Auerbach White and Rancière defined the relationship between politics and historical and literary writing; how they articulate the politics of historical writing (White) and the politics of literature (Rancière).

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A Circle or a Spiral? The Primeval, Tropological Scheme Identified in the Structure of Truth Theories

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Cirillo G.

Filozofia i nauka. Studia filozoficzne i interdyscyplinarne

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2022

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vol. 10

173-185

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Applying linguistic tropes to the deep structure which underlay the 19th century historical imagination Hayden White derived from the vault of philosophical richness contained in Giambattista Vico’s La Scienza Nuova. Now the treasure trove becomes a source of one more illuminating analogy. The following study demonstrates how metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche and irony can be identified with five major theories of truth: the correspondence, pragmatic, coherence, deflationary and the semantic one. Theories are evoked on the basis of texts by philosophers themselves (Bertrand Russell, Charles Sanders Peirce, Brand Blanshard et al.). Moreover, a numerical mismatch between them and the four tropes should be seen as everything but unwanted. The concept of irony has multiple interpretations, and so mapping it onto the semantic theory will expose the relation between truth accounts and the principle of their development. In the end, there emerges a pattern in the shape of a circle or a spiral—two models of infinity along which runs the human quest for meaning of truth.

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Poezja jako forma zapisu historii w Indiach przedkolonialnych. Expositio rerum gestarum w traktacie o metodzie

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Borek P.

Przegląd Orientalistyczny

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2017

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issue 1-2

3-17

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This article is an attempt to identify history in an early modern text belonging to the Hindi literary tradition. The theoretical foundations that enable such a venture are to be found in the narrativist philosophy of history, since it afforded equal status to those discourses about the past which do not meet the narrow criteria of world-history. V. Rao, D. Shulman and S. Subrahmanyam, in their work on South India, proposed that an analysis of texture allows history to be identified in those compositions that do not belong to the Western tradition of historiography. It is worth verifying whether their method applies to other literary traditions of India. The same researchers undermined the legitimacy of talking about prose as the only possible way of writing history – by claiming that history is written in the dominant literary genre of a particular community, space and time. Their hypotheses are hereby confronted with passages from Bhūṣan’s Śivrājbhūṣaṇ (1673).

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Literárna dimenzia historických narácií a jej charakter v súčasnej postmodernej kultúre

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Šuch J.

Conversatoria Litteraria

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2018

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issue 12

201-207

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The author of the article presents Hayden White’s understanding of historicalnarrative. This tropological understanding of history emphasizes common constructiveprocesses in the writing of fiction and historical narrative. According toWhite, historians use fictive elements (narrative structures) in writing historicalnarratives, which are important for their understanding. This is the opposite viewto the traditional “scientific” understanding of historical narratives which supposethat the significance of literary dimension of historical narrative disappears in theprocess of creating one universal narrative about the past. Contemporary postmodernculture supports radical plurality of historical narratives, which reduces thepossibility of writing such a universal historical narrative. From the point of view ofthe author, the developing era of digitalization will have a negative impact on literaryskill of young generation as well as the writing of historical narrative.

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Metahistory: Vicissitudes and Humanistic Capacity of the Concept

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Michalski Ł. M.

ER(R)GO: Teoria – Literatura – Kultura

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2023

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issue 47

123-139

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Czy termin metahistoria jest powtórzeniem arystotelesowskiego gestu nazwania metafizyki? W 2023 roku mija pół wieku od pierwszego wydania słynnej książki Haydena White’a pt. Metahistory. The Historical Imagination In Nineteenth-Century Europe. Jednakże to klasyczne, dość powszechnie znane dzieło – a także jego krytyka – nie dały terminowi metahistoria życia, którym w horyzoncie terminów badawczych cieszy się choćby metafizyka. W niniejszych rozważaniach nie chodzi mi o sentymentalne upominanie się o termin, który miałby być dziś cenny z samego tylko powodu, że niegdyś zaistniał. Raczej o próbę myślenia o ścieżce wzbogacania (prze)myślenia o wyobraźni historycznej – ta ostatnia, jak sądzę, jest kluczem dla oporu wobec współczesnych kryzysów i impasów dzisiejszej humanistyki.

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Is the term metahistory a repetition of the Aristotelian gesture of naming metaphysics? In 2023, half a century passes since the first publication of Hayden White’s famous book Metahistory. The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe. However, this classic, fairly well-known work – as well as its criticism – did not give life to the term metahistory, which in the horizon of research terms is enjoyed, for example, by metaphysics. In these considerations, I do not mean sentimental reminding about a term that would be valuable today for the sole reason that it once existed. Rather, it is an attempt to think about the path of enriching (re)thinking of the historical imagination – the latter, I believe, is the key to resisting the contemporary crises and impasses of today’s humanities.

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A Circle or a Spiral? The Primeval, Tropological Scheme Identified in the Structure of Truth Theories

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Cirillo G.

Filozofia i Nauka

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2022

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vol. 10

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O historické fikci a jejích žánrech

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Schubertová A.

Svět literatury – Časopis pro novodobé literatury (World of Literature – Journal for Modern Literatures)

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2021

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vol. 31

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issue 2

141-149

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From the Romance to the Novel and Back Again by Ladislav Nagy is dedicated to the topic of historical prose. The author analyses the theoretical debate about the relationship between fictional and historical writing, and he also examines the generic development of English historical fiction. In the passages dedicated to the narrative aspects of history, Nagy offers a persuasive criticism of Hayden White’s distinction between fictional and historical writing, and sees an alternative to it in Paul Ricœur’s theory of narrative. In the second line of argumentation Nagy presents a thesis that historical prose has developed from the romance genre, and through a short diversion to novel it returns to romance again. He analyses Scott’s novel Waverley, which famously defines itself against romance, as a romance, and he uses the same term for postmodern historical fiction. This thesis seems less plausible to me as Nagy’s definition of both novel and romance genres is problematic.

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I Am not Interested in truth. I Am interested in Reality, – a Conversation with Hayden White

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Muchowski J.

Historyka Studia Metodologiczne

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2011

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vol. 41

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Towards the Post-secular Historical Consciousness

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Wiśniewski T.

Prace Kulturoznawcze

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2017

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vol. 21

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issue 1

79-94

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This paper is an attempt to present an idea of post-secular historical consciousness. I start from brief observations about the contemporary post-secular condition and emphasize the presence of some non-secular factors in historical consciousness (such as the meaning of the theological tradition). I reveal some elements present in contemporary historiography (especially in the writings of Hayden White), which — I believe — are based on ideas derived from religious (spiritual, theological) imagination, but which also appear useful for eventual conceptualizing of the post-secular historical consciousness. I discuss also political dimensions of the problem, its symptoms and stakes (from 9/11 terrorist attacks to Michel Houellebecq’s novel Submission).

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I am not interested in truth. I am interested reality. A conversation with Hayden White

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Historyka Studia Metodologiczne

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2012

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vol. 42

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Hayden Whites Existentialism and Philosophy of History

Poczucie czy zanik historii w poezji po 2000 roku?

Polityka pisarstwa historycznego i polityka literatury. Hayden White i Jacques Rancière czytają Ericha Auerbacha

A Circle or a Spiral? The Primeval, Tropological Scheme Identified in the Structure of Truth Theories

Poezja jako forma zapisu historii w Indiach przedkolonialnych. Expositio rerum gestarum w traktacie o metodzie

Literárna dimenzia historických narácií a jej charakter v súčasnej postmodernej kultúre

Metahistory: Vicissitudes and Humanistic Capacity of the Concept

A Circle or a Spiral? The Primeval, Tropological Scheme Identified in the Structure of Truth Theories

O historické fikci a jejích žánrech

I Am not Interested in truth. I Am interested in Reality, – a Conversation with Hayden White

Towards the Post-secular Historical Consciousness

I am not interested in truth. I am interested reality. A conversation with Hayden White