Metahistory, the book whose forty years publication anniversary calls for this dossier, is not only about the chronological organization or the beginning-middle-end structure of the story, but also about the triple-dimensionality ...

In this article I explore Hayden White’s constructivist approach to historical representation through the lens of “narrative truth”. My aim is to show that – in addition to helping historians make peace with constructivist ...

The objective of this article is to explore the main idea that lies behind Hayden White’s philosophy of history concerning the very nature of historical narratives. My main hypothesis is that Whitean narrativist theory may ...

Through an analysis of key insights from two central figures of philosophy of history, Louis Mink and Hayden White, this article tries to answer the following questions: firstly, why can narrative structure be thought as ...

The recognition by the sociology of scientific knowledge of the artifactuality and contingent character of scientific knowledge has resulted in considering the canonical narrative forms of history of science as unsustainable ...

Calling into question the idea of progress, as it has been done by contemporary approaches in philosophy of history and historical epistemology, entails accepting the impossibility of replacing it by another idea that puts ...