Hayden White (1928-) is an historian in the tradition of literary criticism, perhaps most famous for his work "Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe" (1973). He is currently professor emeritus at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and professor of comparative literature at Stanford University. White rejected the post-Collingwoodian philosophy of history by brushing away previous distinctions and debates, … Wikipedia
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