The ethics of narrative : essays on history, literature, and theory, 1998-2007 / / Hayden White, edited and with an introduction by Robert Doran, foreword by Judith Butler
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White Hayden V. <1928-2018, >
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| Titolo: |
The ethics of narrative : essays on history, literature, and theory, 1998-2007 / / Hayden White, edited and with an introduction by Robert Doran, foreword by Judith Butler
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| Pubblicazione: | Ithaca, New York ; ; London : , : Cornell University Press, , [2022] |
| ©2022 | |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (295 pages) |
| Disciplina: | 907.2 |
| Soggetto topico: | Historiography |
| Literature and history | |
| History - Philosophy | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Essays. |
| Persona (resp. second.): | DoranRobert <1968-> |
| ButlerJudith <1956-> | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Intro -- Foreword -- Editor's Note -- Acknowledgments -- Editor's Introduction -- 1. The Problem with Modern Patriotism -- 2. Symbols and Allegories of Temporality -- 3. The Discourse of Europe and the Search for a European Identity -- 4. Catastrophe, Communal Memory, and Mythic Discourse: The Uses of Myth in the Reconstruction of Society -- 5. Figura and Historical Subalternation -- 6. The Westernization of World History -- 7. On Transcommunality and Models of Community -- 8. Anomalies of the Historical Museum, or, History as Utopian Space -- 9. Figural Realism in Witness Literature: On Primo Levi's Se questo è un uomo -- 10. The Elements of Totalitarianism: On Hannah Arendt -- 11. The Metaphysics of Western Historiography: Cosmos, Chaos, and Sequence in Historiological Representation -- 12. Historicality as a Trope of Political Discourse: Rhetoric, Ethics, Politics -- 13. Exile and Abjection -- 14. The Dark Side of Art History: On Melancholy -- 15. Against Historical Realism: A Reading of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace -- Index. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | "The first in a two-volume anthology of Hayden White's uncollected essays from the last two decades of his life, revealing White as a public intellectual. It places White's thought in context, explaining its major themes, sources, and frames of reference, and features five previously unpublished lectures as well as more complete versions of several published essays"-- |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The ethics of narrative |
| ISBN: | 1-5017-6505-1 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910795844403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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