description: In White's view, beyond the surface level of the historical text, there is a deep structural, or latent, content that is generally poetic and specifically linguistic in nature. This deeper content - the metahistorical element - indicates what an appropriate historical explanation might be.In pursuing his thesis, White provides a book that will be of interest to philosophers as well as historians. He explicates the styles of such historians as Michelet, Ranke, Tocueville, and Borchardt and of such philosophers of history as Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, and Croce.
language: Spanish; Castilian
title: Metahistoria
titlecomplete: Metahistoria (Spanish Edition)
genres: Politics, Academic, Literary Criticism, European History, Nonfiction, Philosophy, History, 19th Century, Theory, Criticism
ratings_count: 388
publisher: Fondo de Cultura Economica USA