I thus conclude by offering a reading of Marc Bloch’s The Historian’s Craft as a small contribution to reinforce White’s modernist theory of historiography. The fulfillment of this oscillation can be found in the work of the many theorists and historians who have been stimulated by White’s reflections, and sought to push the oscillation towards one or the other pole. While finding these two arguments at odds with each other, I suggest that we should read them as part of a fruitful oscillation between figural and literal conceptions of modernism/modernity in White’s oeuvre. I argue that Metamodernity presents two separate lines of argumentation: one leading to a modernist theory of historiography, the other, more recent, resulting in a speculative philosophy of modernity. In this essay I imagine and discuss the fulfillment of Metahistory in Hayden White’s Metamodernity, a figural text composed of a specific corpus of essays, spanning over five decades of writing, which present White’s engagement with modernism/modernity.
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