![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Given White's professional travails, his acquaintance with another undisciplined academic, Richard Rorty, and his long-standing friendship with preeminent philosophers of history such as Louis Mink, one might well assume that White eschews Doran's disciplinary labeling for a reason. Thus a question that this title evokes concerns why-whatever philosophy of history happens to be before Hayden White- after him it becomes a topic of philosophical lack of interest, one pursued almost exclusively by those not associated with departments of philosophy. Doran situates White, then, in a niche White rejects and in any case one largely abandoned by those who do academic philosophy. Indeed, another contributor, Arthur Danto, had as of 1995 declared passé the whole subfield of philosophy of history. Provocative because it claims to mark a move within philosophy that pivots on the work of Hayden White, and this despite the fact that White himself explicitly resists inclusion within such a classification, that is, as a philosopher of history. The title of Robert Doran's collection of essays on Hayden White proves provocative and evocative. ![]()
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