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Revisiting History in Hayden White’s Philosophy

Mehdi Ghasemi
- 08 Jul 2014 - 
- Vol. 4, Iss: 3, pp 2158244014542585
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In his book "Historical Fiction, Fictional History, and Historical Reality" as mentioned in this paper, White writes that postmodernists are against professional historiography, and this statement inspired me to reex...
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In his “Historical Fiction, Fictional History, and Historical Reality,” Hayden White writes “What we postmodernists are against is a professional historiography.” This statement inspired me to reex...

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A poetics of postmodernism: History, theory, fiction

TL;DR: A poetics of postmodernism: History, theory, fiction as discussed by the authors is a poetics for post-modernism, and it is also related to our poetics in this paper.
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薔薇の名前 = The name of the rose

TL;DR: In this paper, a series of murders in a 14 century Benedictine abbey are investigated, connected with a long lost work by Aristotle on humour. But the authors focus on the conflict between the prevailing order's view of truth and knowledge, and alternative ways of thinking as represented by Aristotle's text.
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The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (review)

TL;DR: In this paper, the casual "let's-see-what-happens" approach marks Sebeok's introduction: "A key question addressed, explicitly or implicitly, by most of die contributors to this volume, is whether any juxtapositions of the American polymath with the great English detective... are likely to vent esperable uberty?"

The Burden of History

Keri Watson
TL;DR: This the burden of history is well known book in the world, of course many people will try to own it and this is it the book that you can receive directly after purchasing.
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Traditional Wisdom in Land Use and Resource Management Among the Lugbara of Uganda

TL;DR: In this paper, the Lugbara used traditional and modern law, order, and judicial systems among the Lugbaras of Uganda, a segmentary society, and used indigenous medicine.
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The postmodern condition : a report on knowledge

TL;DR: In this article, the status of science, technology, and the arts, the significance of technocracy, and how the flow of information is controlled in the Western world are discussed.
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A poetics of postmodernism : history, theory, fiction

Linda Hutcheon
- 01 Dec 1990 - 
TL;DR: Postmodernisme membawa berbagai efek terhadap kehidupan. as discussed by the authors, salah satunya dalam karya sastra termasuk puisi.
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A poetics of postmodernism: History, theory, fiction

TL;DR: A poetics of postmodernism: History, theory, fiction as discussed by the authors is a poetics for post-modernism, and it is also related to our poetics in this paper.
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The Precession of Simulacra

TL;DR: The Borges fable has now come full circle for us, and possesses nothing but the discrete charm of second-order simulacra as mentioned in this paper, as the most beautiful allegory of simulation.
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The Burden of History

Hayden White
- 01 Jan 1966 - 
TL;DR: For better than a century many historians have found it useful to employ a Fabian tactic against critics in related fields of intellectual endeavor as discussed by the authors, which suggests that history is a kind of art.