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Author Pomorski, Jan, author.

Title Polish theory of history and metahistory in Topolski, Pomian, and Tokarczuk : from Hayden White and beyond / Jan Pomorski
Published New York, NY : Routledge, 2024
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 237 pages)
Series Routledge approaches to history ; 54
Routledge approaches to history ; 54.
Contents Acknowledgements -- Translators' foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Jerzy Topolski: From the methodology of history to the theory of historical narrative -- Chapter 2: Historicity of the being. Krzysztof Pomian's theory of history -- Chapter 3: The historical imagination in the 21st century Central and Eastern Europe. The case of Olga Tokarczuk -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary "This book traces the development of the Polish theory of history, analyzing how Jerzy Topolski, Krzysztof Pomian, and Olga Tokarczuk have both built upon and transgressed the metahistorical theories of American historian Hayden White. By deconstructing and reconstructing contemporary theories of history, this research is a unique contribution to the fields of historiography and the philosophy of history"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Jan Pomorski, Ph.D., is a professor and the Chair of the Department of Digital Humanities and Methodology of History in the Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin, Poland. His scientific speciality encompasses the methodology and theory of history, as well as the history of historiography of the 20th century. He is the author ofsix books (in Polish and English): In a Quest for the Model of Theoretical History (1985), Historian and Methodology (1991), The Road to the Nobel Prize. The New Economic History Paradigm (1995), Looking into Past... Studies and Sketches in Metahistory (2017), Homo Metahistoricus. A Study of Six Cognising Cultures of History (2019), and On Historical Imagination. Exercises in Hermeneutics (2021)
Translated from Polish, but not previously published. Original title unknown
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 19, 2023)
Subject Topolski, Jerzy -- Influence
Pomian, Krzysztof -- Influence
Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962- -- Influence
White, Hayden V., 1928-2018 -- Influence
SUBJECT Tokarczuk, Olga, 1962- fast
Topolski, Jerzy fast
White, Hayden V., 1928-2018 fast
Subject History -- Methodology.
History -- Philosophy.
HISTORY / Historiography
HISTORY / Europe / Eastern
History -- Methodology
History -- Philosophy
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2023003546
ISBN 9781003393955
1003393950
9781000911992
1000911993
9781000912029
1000912027