Produced in honor of White's eightieth birthday,Re-Figuring Hayden Whitetestifies to the lasting importance of White's innovative work, which firmly reintegrates historical studies with literature and the humanities. The book is a major reconsideration of the historian's contributions and influence by an international group of leading scholars from a variety of disciplines. Individual essays address the key concepts of White's intellectual career, including tropes, narrative, figuralism, and the historical sublime while exploring the place of White's work in the philosophy of history, postmodernism, and ethics. They also discuss his role as historian and teacher and apply his ideas to specific historical events.

Philosophy, an introduction / Ewa Domańska

On the metaphilosophy of history / David Carr

White’s "new Neo-Kantiansim": aesthetics, ethics, and politics / Frank Ankersmit

Hayden White and the crisis of historicism / Herman Paul

Narrative, an introduction / Frank Ankersmit

Narrative persistence: the post-postmodern life of narrative theory / Nancy Partner

"Nobody does it better": radical history and Hayden White / Keith Jenkins

Metahistory as Anabasis / Andrew Baird

History: myth and narrative: a coda for Roland Barthes and Hayden White / Stephen Bann

Discourse, an introduction / Frank Ankersmit

"The burden of history" forty years later / David Harlan

The rhetorical dialectic of Hayden White / Allan Megill

Does the sublime price explanation out of the historical market? / Hans Kellner

History beyond the pleasure principle? / Dominick LaCapra

Practice, an introduction / Ewa Domańska

Figuring the Malvinas war experience: heuristic and history as an unfulfilled promise / Verónica Tozzi

Primo Levi for the present / Judith Butler

Hayden White, historian / Richard Vann

Hayden White: an academic teacher / Ewa Domańska.