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Paperback The Practical Past: Volume 17 Book

ISBN: 0810130068

ISBN13: 9780810130067

The Practical Past: Volume 17

(Part of the FlashPoints Series)

Hayden White borrows the title for The Practical Past from philosopher Michael Oakeshott, who used the term to describe the accessible material and literary-artistic artifacts that individuals and institutions draw on for guidance in quotidian affairs. The Practical Past, then, forms both a summa of White's work to be drawn upon and a new direction in his thinking about the writing of history.

White's monumental Metahistory:...

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