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Practical past – Hayden White – New Literary Review – 2024 – ISBN 978-5-4448-2220-3

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The eminent American historical theorist Hayden White (1928-2018), in his last lifetime book, declares the incompatibility of two basic approaches to the past. The first is the historical past, created by historians for the purposes of knowledge and existing only in their books and articles, containing no "indications of how to act in the present or foresee the future." The second is the Practical Past, concerned with people's needs in the present and their vision of the future, useful not only in a broad worldly sense but also in an ethical, Kantian sense, since it offers its help in answering the question, "What should I do?" What literary forms and genres can fulfill our need for a practical past today? Can history, as it did in the time of Antiquity and the Middle Ages, once again fulfill a function? These are the questions H. White proposes to discuss them in the book that has become his intellectual testament.
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