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3The Arbor scientiae Reconceived and the History of Vico’s Resurrection (review)New Vico Studies 12 (n/a): 114-121. 1994.
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46Vattimo’s “Weak” Thought and Vico’s “New” Science (review)New Vico Studies 9 (n/a): 61-68. 1991.
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8Vico and the Radical Wing of Structuralist/Poststructuralist Thought TodayNew Vico Studies 1 (n/a): 63-68. 1983.
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3The Content of the FormJohns Hopkins. 1987.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. In the end, he suggests, the only meaning that history can have is the kind that a narrative imagination gives to it. The secret of the process by which consciousness invests history with meaning resides in the content of the form, in the way our narrative capacities transforms the present into a fulfillment of a …Read more
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3The Tasks of Intellectual HistoryThe Monist 53 (4): 606-630. 1969.Intellectual history—the attempt to write the history of consciousness-in-general, rather than discrete histories of, say, politics, society, economic activity, philosophical thought, or literary expression—is comparatively new as a scholarly discipline; but it can lay claim to a long ancestry. It is arguable that intellectual history has its remote origins in the sectarian disputes of ancient philosophers and theologians, who, by constructing “histories” of their opponents’ doctrines, sought to…Read more
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1Collingwood and Toynbee: Transitions in English Historical ThoughtEnglish Miscellany 8 147-178. 1957.
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1The Uses of history (edited book)Wayne State University Press. 1968.Adam Smith and the philosophy of anti-history, by J. Weiss.--Towards a dissolution of the ontological argument, by A. C. Danto.--Romanticism, historicism, realism: toward a period concept for early 19th century intellectual history, by H. V. White.--History and humanity: the Proudhonian vision, by A. Noland.--Hintze and the legacy of Ranke, by M. Covensky.--Objections to metaphysics, by J. Cobitz.--The term expressionism in the visual arts, by V. H. Miesel.--Karl Löwith's anti-historicism, by B.…Read more
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14A Review of A ReviewRethinking Intellectual History: Texts, Contexts, LanguageHistory and CriticismModern European Intellectual History: Reappraisals and New PerspectivePost-Structuralism and the Question of HistoryThe Content of Form: Narrative Discourse and Historical Respresentation (review)Journal of the History of Ideas 49 (4): 677. 1988.
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The Problem of Style in Realistic Representation: Marx and FlaubertIn Leonard B. Meyer & Berel Lang (eds.), The Concept of style, University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 213. 1979.
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9The Burden of HistoryHistory and Theory 5 (2): 111-134. 1966.Claims by historians that history is both an art and a science are used to avoid the rigor appropriate to the sciences and to remain blind to the imaginative innovations characteristic of modern art. Few modern historians have approached the intellectual courage of Burckhardt's "impressionist" view of the Renaissance; yet such courage--even to contemplate the dissolution of historiography as we now know it--is required before artists and scientists will be willing to take history seriously
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33Vico and Herder: Two Studies in the History of Ideas (review)Political Theory 5 (1): 124-127. 1977.
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5"Anarchico e relativista". Intervista a cura di Adriano BuglianiIride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 17 (1): 15-46. 2004.
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21The Question of Narrative in Contemporary Historical TheoryHistory and Theory 23 (1): 1-33. 1984.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. White himself acknowledges that narrativity challenges the scientific of history, but suggests that narrativity is not only unavoidable, but also offers a form of literary or allegorical truth.\n\nWhite first discusses the critiques of narrative as a means of commun…Read more
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12The Growth of Minds and Cultures: A Unified Theory of the Structures of Human Experience. Willem H. VanderburgIsis 79 (3): 493-494. 1988.
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7Historical PluralismCritical Inquiry 12 (3): 480-493. 1986.It is as if [W. J. T.] Mitchell, who in his stance as a literary theorist is willing to admit of a plurality of equally legitimate critical modes, were unwilling to extend this pluralism to the consideration of history itself. By this I do not mean that he would be unwilling to view the history of criticism as a cacophony or polyphony of contending critical positions, as a never=ending circle of critical viewpoints, with no one of them being able finally to declare itself the winner for all time…Read more
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4Il filo e le tracce, di Carlo GinzburgIride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 20 (2): 381-386. 2007.
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72. the public relevance of historical studies: A reply to Dirk MosesHistory and Theory 44 (3). 2005.I am grateful to Dirk Moses for taking the time to study my work so assiduously and to comment on it so perspicuously. His essay is eminently well-informed and even-handed, and I have little to add to or correct of his characterization of my many, long on-going, and admittedly flawed attempts to deconstruct modern historical discourse. He understands me well enough and I think that I understand his objections to my position. We do not disagree on matters of fact, I think, but we have different n…Read more
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4Review article: Guilty of History? The Long Duree of Paul RicoeurHistory and Theory 46 (2): 233-251. 2007.Review: Ricoeur, Paul. Memory, History, Forgetting. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2004
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Language |
20th Century Philosophy |