Metahistory – Vicissitudes and Humanistic Capacity of the Concept
Metahistory – Vicissitudes and Humanistic Capacity of the Concept

Summary/Abstract: Is the term metahistory a repetition of the Aristotelian gesture of namingmetaphysics? In 2023, half a century passes since the first publication of Hayden White’sfamous book Metahistory. The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth-Century Europe.However, this classic, fairly well-known work – as well as its criticism – did not give lifeto the term metahistory, which in the horizon of research terms is enjoyed, for example,by metaphysics.In these considerations, I do not mean sentimental reminding about a term that wouldbe valuable today for the sole reason that it once existed. Rather, it is an attempt to thinkabout the path of enriching (re)thinking of the historical imagination – the latter, I believe,is the key to resisting the contemporary crises and impasses of today’s humanities.

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