Hayden White citáty

Hayden White byl americký historik a literární teoretik řazený k postmodernismu, profesor srovnávací literatury na Stanfordově univerzitě.

Jeho nejznámější prací je kniha Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe z roku 1973. Odmítl v ní vnímat historiografii jako objektivní vědeckou disciplínu, vnímá ji spíše jako literární žánr, zdůraznil, jak je historik závislý na jazyku a rétorických tropech. Wikipedia  

✵ 12. červenec 1928 – 5. březen 2018
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Hayden White citáty a výroky

„Každá psaná historie je produktem přesně týchž postupů zestručnění, nahrazení, znázornění a uzpůsobení, jaké se používají v produkci filmové reprezentace.“

Zdroj: [Taylor, Richard Filmová propaganda, iliteratura.cz, 2016-07-30, 2016-08-20, http://www.iliteratura.cz/Clanek/36879/taylor-richard-filmova-propaganda]

Hayden White: Citáty anglicky

“Like Kant before him, Darwin insists that the source of all error is semblance. Analogy, he says again and again, is always a ‘deceitful guide’ (see pp. 61, 66, 473). As against analogy, or as I would say merely metaphorical characterizations of the facts, Darwin wishes to make a case for the existence of real ‘affinities’ genealogically construed. The establishment of these affinities will permit him to postulate the linkage of all living things to all others by the ‘laws’ or ‘principles’ of genealogical descent, variation, and natural selection. These laws and principles are the formal elements in his mechanistic explanation of why creatures are arranged in families in a time series. But this explanation could not be offered as long as the data remained encoded in the linguistic modes of either metaphor or synecdoche, the modes of qualitative connection. As long as creatures are classified in terms of either semblance or essential unity, the realm of organic things must remain either a chaos of arbitrarily affirmed connectedness or a hierarchy of higher and lower forms. Science as Darwin understood it, however, cannot deal in the categories of the ‘higher’ and ‘lower’ any more than it can deal in the categories of the ‘normal’ and ‘monstrous.’ Everything must be entertained as what it manifestly seems to be. Nothing can be regarded as ‘surprising,’ any more than anything can be regarded as ‘miraculous.”

"The fictions of factual representation"