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.
| Author/creator | White, Hayden V. |
| Other author | Doran, Robert, 1968- |
| Other author | Butler, Judith, 1956- |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2023. |
| Description | volumes ; 23 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Incomplete content | v.1. The problem with modern patriotism -- Symbols and allegories of temporality -- The discourse of Europe and the search for a European identity -- Catastrophe, communal memory, and mythic discourse: the uses of myth in the reconstruction of society -- Figura and historical subalternation -- The westernization of world history -- On transcommunality and models of community -- Anomalies of the historical museum or, history as utopian space -- Figural realism in witness literature: on Primo Levi's Se questo è un uomo -- The elements of totalitarianism: on Hannah Arendt -- The metaphysics of western historiography: cosmos, chaos, and sequence in historiological representation -- Historicality as a trope of political discourse: rhetoric, ethics, politics -- Exile and abjection -- The dark side of art history: on melancholy -- Against historical realism: a reading of Leo Tolstoy's War and peace |
| Abstract | "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White's thought in context, explaining its major themes, sources, and frames of reference, and features five previously unpublished lectures as well as more complete versions of several published essays"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2021045771 |
| ISBN | 9781501764738 (v. 1 ; hardcover) |
| ISBN | 9781501764745 (v. 1 ; paperback) |
| ISBN | 9781501773594 (v. 2 ; paperback) |
| ISBN | 9781501773587 (v. 2 ; hardcover) |
| ISBN | (v. 1 ; epub) |
| ISBN | 9781501773969 (v. 2 ; epub) |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | ✔ Available |