Abstract

TOZZI, VERONICA. Hayden White and a Literarily Informed Philosophy of History. Ideas y Valores [online]. 2009, vol.58, n.140, pp.73-98. ISSN 0120-0062.

The year 2008 is the 25^th of the publication of Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe, a milestone for the philosophy of history, since it comprehends its linguistic turn. 2008 is also the 80^th birthday of Hayden White, an occasion for philosophers of history and historians from several areas to revisit his work and reconsider the challenges that it has delegated to us. A fundamental challenge is the necessity of going back, again and again, to literary theory to elucidate the nature of historical discourse. This article makes a critical evaluation on the consequences that literary information has for the cognitive status of historical representation.

Keywords : history; discourse; tropes; figural realism; literary theory.

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