This book traces the development of the Polish theory of history, analyzing how Jerzy Topolski, Krzysztof Pomian, and Olga Tokarczuk have both built upon and transgressed the metahistorical theories of American historian Hayden White.

Jan Pomorski, Ph.D., is a professor and the Chair of the Department of Digital Humanities and Methodology of History in the Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland. His scientific speciality encompasses the methodology and theory of history, as well as the history of historiography of the 20th century. He is the author of six books (in Polish and English): In a Quest for the Model of Theoretical History (1985), Historian and Methodology (1991), The Road to the Nobel Prize. The New Economic History Paradigm (1995), Looking into Past... Studies and Sketches in Metahistory (2017), Homo Metahistoricus. A Study of Six Cognising Cultures of History (2019), and On Historical Imagination. Exercises in Hermeneutics (2021).

Introduction 1. Jerzy Topolski: From the Methodology of History to the Theory of Historical Narrative 2. Historicity of the Being. Krzysztof Pomian's Theory of History 3. The Historical Imagination in the 21st Century Central and Eastern Europe. The Case of Olga Tokarczuk