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Hayden White borrows the title for The Practical Past from philosopher Michael Oakeshott, who used the term to describe the accessible material and literaryartistic artifacts that individuals and institutions draw on for guidance in quotidian affairs. The Practical Past, then, forms both a summa of Whites work to be drawn upon and a new direction in his thinking about the writing of history.Whites monumental Metahistory: The Historical Imagination in NineteenthCentury Europe (1973) challenged many of the commonplaces of professional historical writing and wider assumptions about the ontology of history itself. It formed the basis of his argument that we can never recover what actually happenedin the past and cannot really access even material culture in context. Forty years on, White sees professional history' as falling prey to narrow specialization, and he calls upon historians to take seriously the practical past of explicitly artistic works, such as novels and dramas, and literary theorists likewise to engage historians.
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