海頓．懷特批評納粹大屠殺的悲情化寫作破壞了敘事客觀性，引發了敘事客觀原則是否要讓位於倫理良知的敘事哲學困境。懷特轉而探索一種兼顧主觀和客觀的新型寫作。他在一本漫畫中看到模版，並以敘事哲學的思維追問其合理性。懷特先後得出這種客觀寫作要在風格上反諷，在寫作成分上反再現，在敘事哲學範式上反二元論，在哲學本體論上反本質主義的判斷。他最終確證了這種可稱之為「現代主義」的客觀寫作形式在各理論層級的合理性。這種寫作的客觀性基於作者敘事主導權的弱化、事實再現的複調化，以及讀者判斷的自主化得以實現。它反映的不是事實本身，而是事實被調查和講述的過程。在事實記錄越發海量且多元的今天，這種新型客觀寫作有其實踐前途。

Haydn White criticized the tragic writing on the Holocaust for destroying the narrative objectivity, which raised the narrative philosophical dilemma, i.e., whether the principle of narrative objectivity should give way to ethical conscience. White turned to explore a new type of writing that combined both subjectivity and objectivity. He saw the template in a comic, and questioned its rationality with the thinking of narrative philosophy. White successively came to the opinions that this objective writing type should be ironic in style, anti-representational in writing make-up, anti-dualism in narrative philosophy paradigm, and anti-essentialism in philosophical ontology. Thus, he affirmed the rationality of this objective form of writing that can be called “modernism” at various theoretical levels. The realization of the objectivity in this type of writing based on the weakening of the author’s narrative authority, the polyphonic representation of fact, and readers’ autonomic comprehension. It reflects not the facts themselves, but the process by which they were investigated and told. Today, when factual records are becoming more and more massive and diverse, this new type of objective writing has a practical future.