num_pages: 464
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: English
title: Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe
titlecomplete: Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe
genres: History, Criticism, Theory, Politics, Philosophy, 19th Century, European History, Academic, Literary Criticism, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 388
publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press