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    The Uses of history (edited book)
    with William John Bosenbrook
    Wayne State University Press. 1968.
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    Aesthetics of Historiography
    History of the Human Sciences 5 (1). 1992.
  • Di pietro) 410
    with J. A. De Vito, P. H. Reaney, Claude Lapointe, Rodney D. Huddleston, and Giorgio Tagliacozzo
    Foundations of Language 9 444. 1973.
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    Books in Review
    Political Theory 22 (3): 509-511. 1994.
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    Commentary
    History of the Human Sciences 9 (4): 123-138. 1996.
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    After Philosophy (review)
    New Vico Studies 6 167-168. 1988.
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    The Content of the Form
    Johns 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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    The Tasks of Intellectual History
    The 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
  •  1
    The Uses of history (edited book)
    with William John Bosenbrook
    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
  • O fazie badań i fazie pisania w pracy historyka
    Ruch Filozoficzny 70 (3). 2013.
  • The Problem of Style in Realistic Representation: Marx and Flaubert
    In Leonard B. Meyer & Berel Lang (eds.), The Concept of style, University of Pennsylvania Press. pp. 213. 1979.
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    The Burden of History
    History 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
  • Historicismus, historie a figurativní obraznost
    Reflexe: Filosoficky Casopis 16 1-23. 1996.
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  • Review (review)
    History and Theory 4 244-252. 1965.
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    "Anarchico e relativista". Intervista a cura di Adriano Bugliani
    Iride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 17 (1): 15-46. 2004.
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    The Question of Narrative in Contemporary Historical Theory
    History 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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    Historical Pluralism
    Critical 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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    Il filo e le tracce, di Carlo Ginzburg
    with Davidson Arnold
    Iride: Filosofia e Discussione Pubblica 20 (2): 381-386. 2007.
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    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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    Review article: Guilty of History? The Long Duree of Paul Ricoeur
    History and Theory 46 (2): 233-251. 2007.
    Review: Ricoeur, Paul. Memory, History, Forgetting. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2004