History · Historical Method and Historiography
UGC NET December 2015 History
Identify from among the following who is not a post-modernist critique:
AJacques Lacan
BHayden White ✓ Correct
CMichel Foucault
DJacques Derrida
Correct answer: (B) Hayden White — Hayden White was not a post-modernist critic, so the answer is Hayden White.
Explanation
★Hayden White was not a post-modernist critic, so the answer is Hayden White.
★He was an American historian in the tradition of literary criticism.
★He is most famous for his work Metahistory.
★Its full title is Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in Nineteenth Century Europe (1973).
★Lacan, Foucault and Derrida are linked with post-modern thought.
★So among these only Hayden White was not a post-modernist critic.
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