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Hayden White
Hayden White
(born July 12, 1928) is a
historian
in the tradition of
literary criticism
, perhaps most famous for his work
Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe
(1973/2014). He has argued that historical writing mirrors literary writing in many ways, sharing the strong reliance on narrative for meaning, therefore ruling out the possibility for objective or truly scientific history. White has also argued, however, that history is most successful when it embraces this "narrativity", since it is what allows history to be meaningful. He is currently
professor emeritus
at the
University of California, Santa Cruz
, having recently retired from the position of Professor of
comparative literature
at
Stanford University
.
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