Study any textbook on the theory and philosophy of history, and you will be assured that his 1973 book Metahistory marked a revolutionary turning point in historical theory. Hayden White probes the notion of authority in art and literature and examines the problems of meaning - its production, distribution, and consumption - in different historical epochs. Hayden 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). Metahistory proved to be both controversial and highly influential. Hayden White (July 12, 1928 - March 5, 2018) was an American historian and historiographer. In this classic work, White argues that a deep structural content lies beyond the surface level of historical texts. Hayden White has challenged the veritable intellectual tradition that since the time of Aristotle rests on the distinction of poetry (imaginary) and history (real). 13 13 Arthur Danto, Analytical Philosophy of History [1965] (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1968). Gravity. He joined the Navy at the end of World War II, and after his service enrolled in Wayne State University on the GI Bill, earning a BA in history in 1951. Europe. Foucault Decoded: Notes from Underground (1973). Match. London: Bloomsbury, 2013. He leaves behind him not only family, friends, and colleagues, but also a vibrant legacy about the ways historians tell stories about the past. The author of Metahistory, one of the most influential books in the humanities over the past four decades, died Monday. Some historians will insist that history cannot become a science until it finds the technical terminology adequate to the correct characterization of its objects of study, in the way that physics did in the calculus and chemistry did in the periodic tables. Flashcards. • Hayden White returns to age-old considerations; like Aristotle who in the POETICS questioned the fundamental differences between “history” and ‘poetry’: “Poetry tends to express the universal, history the particular.” • Notion of a truly scientific (positivist) historical representation has its origins in the hayden white The Historical Event For the process of truth to begin, some-thing must happen. ISBN 9780804760034; Oliver Daddow. II. https://nplusonemag.com/.../emancipation-from-the-burden-of-history 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. Hayden White (b. Hayden left a lasting mark for interdisciplinary scholarship on each of these institutions—as well as beyond them— which was the more notable for its avoidance of ideology or dogma together with an … White thinks that the way the 'historical field' (a given set of events, developments, structures, agents etc.) Scott McLemee. [16] He ended his career as University Professor Emeritus[17] at the history of consciousness department of the University of California, Santa Cruz, having previously retired from the comparative literature department of Stanford University. "[10] They focus on the problem of history. In this classic work, White argues that a deep structural content lies Hayden White is professor emeritus of the histories of consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Hayden White is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, professor emeritus of comparative literature at Stanford University, and professor emeritus of the history of consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Hayden White's work can be seen as its most successful and effective manifestation. cal narratives contain an irreducible and inexpungeable ele-. Ibid., 274–276. • Hayden White returns to age-old considerations; like Aristotle who in the POETICS questioned the fundamental differences between “history” and ‘poetry’: “Poetry tends to express the universal, history the particular.” • Notion of a truly scientific (positivist) historical representation has its origins in the Bossenbrook saw history as fundamentally a story of the conflict between ideas, values, and dreams. A. Dirk Moses - 2005 - History and Theory 44 (3):311-332. It shifts his focus in the direction of identifying the importance of narratives in history. 2014. White mentions two figures who have enabled people to ask questions about history's objectivity: Marx and Nietzsche. as co-editor (1969) with Giorgio Tagliacozzo. In the end, he suggests, the only meaning that history can have is the kind that a narrative imagination gives to it. Therefore, Hayden White was consigned to marginality in the circle of historical discourse. For the footballer, see, Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe, Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-century Europe, "The Question of Narrative in Contemporary Historical Theory", "The Politics of Historical Interpretation: Discipline and De-Sublimation", "The Value of Narrativity in the Representation of Reality", "Foucault Decoded: Notes from Underground", https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2018/03/09/essay-death-hayden-white, "Essay on the death of Hayden White | Inside Higher Ed", https://histcon.ucsc.edu/faculty/singleton.php?&singleton=true&cruz_id=hayden, "The Work of Hayden White I: Mimesis, Figuration, and the Writing of History", Revisiting History in Hayden White’s Philosophy, "The Work of Hayden White II: Defamiliarizing Narrative. Young Hayden spent much of his childhood going back and forth between the two areas. It turned the shift from rhetoric to science in its contrary direction: a new turn to rhetoric was proclaimed. Excerto: This special issue of the journal Práticas da História – Journal on Theory, Historiography and Uses of the Past was organised upon hearing news of Hayden White’s death – born in 1928, in the U.S.A., White would live there for most of his life and there he died, on March 2018. SCARICARE LEGGI ONLINE. Please read our commenting and letters policy before submitting. Apparently some of Hayden White’s ideas were shunned by many of his fellow historians, most particularly the idea that “all stories are fictions” according to Robert Doran a professor at University of Rochester. Test. Hayden White in History and Theory Virtual Issue, May 2018 Contribute to the Hayden V. White Endowed Chair at UC Santa Cruz . History explains temporal changes in the human world by telling a story about it. PLAY. Excerto: This special issue of the journal Práticas da História – Journal on Theory, Historiography and Uses of the Past was organised upon hearing news of Hayden White’s death – born in 1928, in the U.S.A., White would live there for most of his life and there he died, on March 2018. A. Dirk Moses - 2005 - History and Theory 44 (3):311-332. 94 (1975). 1. This new anti‐turn set off a hitherto unanswered question as to how research methodology should be treated. This article is about the historian. [15] This view is contrary to historians such as Fueter, Cooch, and Croce, who tried to distinguish between historiography and philosophies of history. Hayden White is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, professor emeritus of comparative literature at Stanford University, and professor emeritus of the history of consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Meaning is something we impose on those particulars. He was a 40-year resident of Santa Cruz who traveled the world. May his memory as teacher, theorist, writer and friend inspire us to get out from under the burdens of history and make the present and future our own. Left to itself, it was a chaos of meaningless particulars. Patrick Finney. olivia_purvis. The purpose of history is often described as revealing the ‘truth’ about the past. From Hegel to Croce, he reviews and analizes the many different ways history was written in the nineteenth century and it's impact and influence in today's historiography. Hayden White taught that the imagination could push back against academic disciplines, cultural orthodoxies and political ideologies. 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, … A unique intellectual program, History of Consciousness dated from the birth of UC Santa Cruz in 1965 and emphasized a commitment to interdisciplinary research and teaching. ", "History in the world: Hayden White and the consumer of history”, "Exploding history: Hayden White on disciplinization", "Hayden White and the Tragedy of International History", Hayden V. White Papers at University of California, Santa Cruz Special Collections, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Hayden_White&oldid=992813436, Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz faculty, Stanford University Department of Comparative Literature faculty, Wikipedia articles that are too technical from September 2018, Articles needing expert attention from September 2018, Wikipedia articles with CANTIC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SELIBR identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SNAC-ID identifiers, Wikipedia articles with SUDOC identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. White taught at several institutions during his career, including Wayne State, the University of Rochester, Wesleyan University, Stanford University, UC Berkeley, and UCLA. Perhaps his most famous, and certainly most enduring, university affiliation, however, was with the University of California, Santa Cruz. Hayden White (1928– ) is an American literary theorist and historiographer whose work is strongly associated with the “linguistic turn” (postmodernism) in history. Hayden White is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, professor emeritus of comparative literature at Stanford University, and professor emeritus of the history of consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Introduction. Hayden White served as Director of Wesleyan’s Center for the Humanities and was a long-time contributor and editorial board member of History and Theory, which also has its home at Wesleyan.Hayden left a lasting mark for interdisciplinary scholarship on each of these institutions—as well as beyond them— which was the more notable for its avoidance of ideology or dogma together … "Exploding history: Hayden White on disciplinization", Rethinking History: The Journal of Theory and Practice, 1470-1154, Volume 12, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 41–58. Hayden White's Perplexing History. In Topics of Discourse edited by Hayden White, 27-50. London: John Hopkins University Press, 1978. He has also written The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation , Figural Realism: Studies in the Mimesis Effect , etc. 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 evidence. Request PDF | On Feb 1, 2014, ADRIAN WILSON published The reflexive test of Hayden White's Metahistory | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate Find books White, Metahistory, 37f. Articles by Hayden White: The Burden of History (1966). Its focus on historical writing as in effect literature appealed strongly not only to literary scholars and others interested in textual analysis, but also to the burgeoning field of cultural history. In the end, he suggests, the only meaning that history can have is the kind that a narrative imagination gives to it. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/14682303/homepage/haydenwhite White received his B.A. Tropes for the Past is an ideal introduction to the literature/historiography debate and Hayden White’s role in it. Maimonides said that since the creation is vast and complex, and God's will is beyond human’s understanding, the goal of the Bible interpretation should be to maximize possible interpretations. The historian has to interpret his ma-. terials in order to construct the moving pattern of images in which the. [7], In his seminal 1973 book Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe, White claimed that the manifest historical text[jargon] is marked by strategies of explanation, which include explanation by argument, explanation by emplotment, and explanation by ideological implication. Since its initial publication in 1973, Hayden White’s Metahistory has remained an essential book for understanding the nature of historical writing. In his last book, The Practical Past (2014), White paid tribute to the significant effect of Bossenbrook. Hayden White, Traumatic Nationalism, and the Public Role of History1. In this classic work, White argues that a deep structural content lies beyond the surface level of historical texts. [6], Among White's influences, two major figures who taught him 'how the historian interprets something. On the second page of his Introduction White stated: Hayden White's Metahistory (1973) marked this change paradigmatically. His 1966 essay “The Burden of History” interpreted history as storytelling, contending that without attending to the craft of writing the discipline would fail to keep up intellectually with other scholarly fields. Although trained as a medievalist, during his long and illustrious career White focused on modern European intellectual history and historical theory. Bibliografie. In other chapters of the book, history / literature question is then addressed from three points of view: narrativity, history as literature, and literature as history. From there he went to the University of Michigan, earning a doctorate in medieval history in 1956. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press. By . White's dense article on narrative discusses the ways that different groups of 20th century historians, particularly historical theorists (see pp.8-9), have constructed and deconstructed narrative as a means of communicating history. Hayden White is a controversial figure in the world of history. White was born on July 12, 1928, in the town of Martin, Tennessee. White figured prominently in a landmark California Supreme Court case regarding covert intelligence gathering on college campuses by police officers in the Los Angeles Police Department. A must for any historian, but a little too deep - and perhaps boring- for those not familiar with history's theory and philosophy. 41–58. He spent his early years in Tennessee; then his father moved to Detroit in search of jobs in the auto industry. Since the publication of Metahistory, he has not chosen to compose another overarching synthesis of the historical production of a particular period. 12, No.1 (2008): 16. [7] The second was 12th-century Jewish philosopher Moses Maimonides, particularly his interpretation of the Bible. For him, history is not simply a list of chronological events. "Hayden White and the Tragedy of International History" , Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Studies Association 's 49th Annual Convention; San Francisco, CA, USA, March 26, 2008. Hayden White, one of the most important figures of the last century in the historical discipline, helped to undermine this idea. Hayden White's Metahistory takes the reader deeply into the winding roads of history writing. The Historical Text as Literary Artifact (Hayden White) STUDY. The Historical Text as a Literary Artifact by Hayden White Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. At a time when intellectuals like Michel Foucault and Jacques Derrida were challenging ideas of scholarly objectivity, Metahistory argued that history was above all writing, that its form was vital to its content. 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. Hayden White - 1984 - History and Theory 23 (1):1-33. In this classic work, White argues that a deep structural content lies beyond the surface level of historical texts. See also the intellectual biography by Herman Paul, Hayden White: The Historical Imagination (London, 2011). The Practical Past. Start by marking “The Historical Text as a Literary Artifact” as Want to Read: He insists, in particular in chapter 7, that philosophies of history are indispensable elements in historiography, which cannot be separated from historiography. Over the years, it attracted a constellation of leading cultural theorists, including Donna Haraway, Teresa de Lauretis, and Angela Davis. Phone: 202.544.2422Email: info@historians.org. Since the publication of his groundbreaking monograph, Metahistory, in 1973, White?s work has been crucial to disciplines where narrative is of primary concern, including history, literary studies, anthropology, philosophy, art history, and film and media studies. [9] Therefore, White contradicts the view that ‘historiography can be objective or truly scientific in itself, unaffected by anything.’. Key Concepts: Terms in this set (46) What does White say about the literary dimension of history? ‘The king died, and then the queen died of grief’ is a plot. Finney, Patrick. 1. I think Hayden White was in this line, playing trickster with professionalized history but also with academe when it took itself, or him, too seriously. Interpretation in History Hayden White HEORISTS OF HISTORIOGRAPHY generally agree that all histori-cal narratives contain an irreducible and inexpungeable ele-ment of interpretation. The most revolutionary claim is White's assessment that narratives are not a representation or depiction of historical reality, but are themselves a way of creating and perpetuating political and social order in the first place. He was a 40-year resident of Santa Cruz who traveled the world. Croce and Becker: A Note on the Evidence of Influence (1971). Editorial do número temático dedicado a “The History of Hayden White“. With this influence, White enjoyed comparing historians' tasks. Such is the recommendation of … Hayden White thus strongly rejects concepts like 'historical' or 'scientific objectivity' and integrates the historian himself into the real-world power structures instead of placing him in a neutral position outside of the political framework. [3], In 1998, White directed a seminar ("The Theory of the Text") at the School of Criticism and Theory. Quotes []. Re-Figuring Hayden White, Edited by Frank Ankersmit, Ewa Domanska, and Hans Kellner. In Metahistory (1973) he argued that historical writing should be read as a genre of literature, and that a … Historicism, History, and the Figurative Imagination (1975). (reacts against the tendency of history to seeks its models in the sciences) it cannot be dismissed as mere decoration. He was 89 years old. White v. Davis, 13 Cal.3d 757, 533 P.2d 222, 120 Cal. Hayden White served as Director of Wesleyan’s Center for the Humanities and was a long-time contributor and editorial board member of History and Theory, which also has its home at Wesleyan. White v. Davis, at 762. According to White, these thinkers both use their philosophy to consider history which “not only makes us know something about the historical process but know how it knows it. 12 July 1928–d. The Content of the Form is a collection of essays by White. This penetrating analysis of eight classic nineteenth-century thinkers explains how historians use literary techniques to write sophisticated historical works.Since its initial publication in 1973, Hayden White’s Metahistory has remained an essential book for understanding the nature of historical writing. “The burden of history”. The covert activities included police officers registering as students, taking notes of discussions occurring in classes, and making police reports on these discussions. [11] Thus, history is recorded differently depending on which mode the historian chooses. In Memoriam Hayden White probes the notion of authority in art and literature and examines the problems of meaning - its production, distribution, and consumption - in different historical epochs. Hayden White himself, of course, had never encouraged this dissipation of the central problem of historiography, which always maintained its irreducible difference from the narratives of fiction. Historians are concerned with events which can be assigned to specific timespace locations, events which are (or were) in principle observable or perceivable, whereas imaginative writers – poets, novelists, playwrights – are concerned with both these kinds of events … To the end of his life, White remained academically and intellectually engaged, a venerable mandarin who was also friendly, witty, and personable. Hayden White was a historian in the tradition of literary criticism, perhaps most famous for his work Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe (1973). [14] Emphasizing history as a narrative using language, he argues that true history should contain both characteristics of synchronic and diachronic. Since its initial publication in 1973, Hayden White’s Metahistory has remained an essential book for understanding the nature of historical writing. Rptr. Scott McLemee takes him out of the poststructuralist pigeonhole. Abstract. He is the author of a number of books published by Johns Hopkins, including Tropics of Discourse: Essays in Cultural Criticism , The Content of the Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Representation , and Figural Realism: Studies in the Mimesis Effect. 12 July 1928–d. Hayden V. White, a leading intellectual and theoretical historian whose magnum opus Metahistory (1974) helped pioneer the linguistic turn in modern historiography, died on March 5, 2018, at his home in Santa Cruz, California. Start studying The Historical Text as Literary Artifact (Hayden White). Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-century Europe is a work of historiography by Hayden White first published in 1973. [8] He argued that historical writing was influenced by literary writing in many ways, sharing the strong reliance on narrative for meaning. Hayden White, Traumatic Nationalism, and the Public Role of History1. (1952) and Ph.D. (1955) degrees from the University of Michigan. The Supreme Court found for White in a unanimous decision. He was professor emeritus at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and held position of professor of comparative literature at Stanford University. He was 89 years old. Both groups have responded to and influenced White's interdisciplinary project. Learn vocabulary, terms, and more with flashcards, games, and other study tools. Hayden White (b. takes shape in the historian's mind is ultimately determined at deep level, deeper than that on which the modes operate (which to some extent can be chosen and reflected upon consciously). History, he famously argued, did not come with endings, middles, or beginnings. ment of interpretation. Hayden White: Beyond Irony Hayden White: Beyond Irony Domanska, Ewa 1998-05-01 00:00:00 A crisis of our age that is usually identified with the loss of the sacred was one of the causes of the fall into irony in the nineteenth century. https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-voices-of-hayden-white The book urged historians to grapple with whether and how their writing creates rather than reflects reality. as co-author (1966) with Willson Coates and J. Salwin Schapiro, This page was last edited on 7 December 2020, at 06:29. The influence of Maimonides helped White focus on a variety of possible interpretations of history, not limited or prescribed history, which diminishes the possibility of interpretation. [13] White also argued, however, that history is most successful when it uses this "narrativity", since it is what allows history to be meaningful. Created by. Although, not surprisingly, White did not always agree with all of his colleagues, he nonetheless thrived in this intense, innovative intellectual atmosphere. H ayden V. White, a leading intellectual and theoretical historian whose magnum opus Metahistory (1974) helped pioneer the linguistic turn in modern historiography, died on March 5, 2018, at his home in Santa Cruz, California. Web Resources. Marx regards the problem of history as the problem of the mode of explanation, while, for Nietzsche, the problem is the problem of the mode of emplotment. [12] By showing Marx’s and Nietzsche’s argument, White once again emphasizes the importance of the philosophies of history, and history as a well-made or well-constructed narrative. Therefore, Bossenbrook regarded history as a mystery to be constantly pondered and studied rather than a puzzle to be solved. Thus narrativism started its triumphal procession in metahistory. While Hayden White is especially known for his analysis of 19th century historiography, his work concerning historical narratives in a more general sense are equally important. Source critique was not refuted but did not attract significant attention. The secret of the process by which consciousness invests history with Hayden White (born 1928) is professor emeritus at the University of California, Santa Cruz, having recently retired from the position of Professor of comparative literature at Stanford University. White developed this line of thinking in full force in Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe. Sep 4, 2018. Spell. This case set the standard that determines the limits of legal police surveillance of political activity in California; police cannot engage in such surveillance in the absence of reasonable suspicion of a crime ("Lockyer Manual"). He did this by comparing historical writing to the writing of literature, noticing that there are many similarities between them. In 1978, White was hired, along with historian of anthropology James Clifford, as a faculty member in the History of Consciousness Board. As E. M. Forster expressed it: “‘The king died and then the queen died’ is a story. True to White's history of linking literary and historical fields of study, The Content of the Form thus questions the role historiography and the historian himself by analyzing the creation, manifestation and perpetuation of power in a social structure from the angle of linguistic construction. Hayden V. White, “The Burden of History,” History and Theory 5, no. In the preface to the book’s 40th-anniversary edition, White wrote: After long reflection, it struck me that none of the historians of historiography that I knew had taken seriously the fact that historiography was first, necessarily, and most obviously writing, which is to say, inscription, of words or signs incised or laid upon a medium and which, by that process of inscription, are endowed with a power both material and spiritual, a power to at once “fix” things in time and seemingly reveal their meaning for their own time and for our own. 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