The “Idea” of Universal History: What the Owl Heard, the Angel Saw, and the Idiot Said

Bowden Brett ()
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Bowden Brett: Western Sydney University School of Humanities and Communication Arts, Penrith, Australia

New Global Studies, 2017, vol. 11, issue 3, 197-209

Abstract: This essay considers the similarities and differences between world history, global history, and universal history. It demonstrates how a philosophical, and specifically a teleological, understanding of history is central to the idea of universal history. To a certain extent, this philosophical version of universal history transcends both world history and global history in that some versions of each of those are in fact universal histories of this very kind.

Keywords: universal history; world history; global history; philosophy of history (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1515/ngs-2017-0021

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