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work_ol7nfnek7ngrlagt66q3jjo6ke	Maria Grever	HISTORY WRITING WITHOUT CLOSURE	2020	7	.pdf	application/pdf	3611	225	48	The Work of hisTory: ConsTruCTivism and a PoliTiCs of The PasT. In The Work of History: Constructivism and a Politics of the Past, Kalle Pihlainen pays tribute to Hayden White's work on narrative constructivism through a comprehensive history, and the role of power, as Pihlainen also discusses the ethics and politics of historical constructivism (xiii). Keywords: Hayden White, constructivism, narrative truth, meaning, critical historiography, ethical-political responsibility, refusal of closure In The Work of History: Constructivism and a Politics of the Past, Kalle Pihlainen pays tribute to White's work on narrative constructivism through a many historians attribute to White and other experts in narrative theory of history Pihlainen gives the example of how historian David Carr wrongly framed White as a "'discontinuity view' theorist" (xviii), Because of historians' commitment to representing a past reality by means of referentiality, Pihlainen claims, meaning makes all participants in "the work of history" ethically and politically 	./cache/work_ol7nfnek7ngrlagt66q3jjo6ke.pdf	./txt/work_ol7nfnek7ngrlagt66q3jjo6ke.txt