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Hayden V. White (July 12, 1928 – March 5, 2018) was an American historian in the tradition of literary criticism, perhaps most famous for his work Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe (1973/2014).
Dec 6, 2017 · Hayden White’s most famous piece of work is Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe (1973). It is mostly remembered for the extensive set of theory found in the introduction covering how the historian uses certain techniques to give their work meaning.
Oct 30, 2019 · Hayden White (b. 12 July 1928–d. 5 March 2018) was a groundbreaking critic of conventional historiography whose emphasis on the moral, rhetorical, aesthetic, and fictive valences of narrative as a mode of figuration unsettled professional historians’ tendency to disavow the role of the imagination and form in the selective arrangement of ...
Hayden V. White was University Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Santa Cruz, where he served as Chair of the History of Consciousness Program, and Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at Stanford University.
Hayden V. White (1928-2018) was a literary critic and historical theorist. During his academic career, White made contributions to the study of narrative theory, historiography, and hermeneutics.
Oct 3, 2019 · Hayden White’s 1973 Metahistory tossed the entire concept of historical science out the window, claiming that historians are fundamentally artists who imbue historical action with aesthetic and ethical purpose.
Mar 14, 2018 · Hayden V. White, professor emeritus in the History of Consciousness Department at UC Santa Cruz, died at his Santa Cruz home on March 5, 2018, at age 89. He was a 40-year resident of Santa Cruz who traveled the world.
Mar 9, 2018 · Hayden V. White, an influential scholar whose ideas on history and how it is shaped have fueled discussions in academic circles for half a century, died on Monday at his home in Santa Cruz,...
Mar 13, 2018 · Hayden V. White, professor emeritus in the History of Consciousness Department at UC Santa Cruz, died at his Santa Cruz home on March 5, 2018, at age 89. He was a 40-year resident of Santa Cruz who traveled the world.
Since its initial publication in 1973, Hayden White’s Metahistory has remained an essential book for understanding the nature of historical writing. In this classic work, White argues that...
