What metahistorian found inspiration in Vico’s work?
Hayden White
Ernst Breisach
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Answer
Hayden White was an American metahistorian who was inspired by the work of Giambattista Vico. White was interested in the ways in which historians construct narratives about the past, and he argued that these narratives are not simply objective accounts of events, but are instead shaped by the historian's own beliefs and values.
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