Re-Figuring Hayden White Book

Introduction: A Distinctively Human Life Hans Kellner 1

Part I Philosophy

Philosophy, an Introduction Ewa Domańska 11

1 On the Metaphilosophy of History David Carr 15

2 White's "New Neo-Kantianism": Aesthetics, Ethics, and Politics Frank Ankersmit 34

3 Hayden White and the Crisis of Historicism Herman Paul 54

Part II Narrative

Narrative, an Introduction Frank Ankersmit 77

4 Narrative Persistence: The Post-Postmodern Life of Narrative Theory Nancy Partner 81

5 "Nobody Does It Better": Radical History and Hayden White Keith Jenkins 105

6 Metahistory as Anabasis Andrew Baird 124

7 History: Myth and Narrative: A Coda for Roland Barthes and Hayden White Stephen Bann 144

Part III Discourse

Discourse, an Introduction Frank Ankersmit 165

8 "The Burden of History" Forty Years Later David Harlan 169

9 The Rhetorical Dialectic of Hayden White Allan Megill 190

10 Does the Sublime Price Explanation Out of the Historical Market? Hans Kellner 216

11 History Beyond the Pleasure Principle? Dominick LaCapra 231

Part IV Practice

Practice, an Introduction Ewa Domańska 257

12 Figuring the Malvinas War Experience: Heuristic and History as an Unfulfilled Promise Verónica Tozzi 261

13 Primo Levi for the Present Judith Butler 282

14 Hayden White, Historian Richard Vann 304

15 Hayden White: An Academic Teacher Ewa Domańska 332

Bibliography of Hayden White: Works in English 351

Contributors 367

Index 371