From Universal History to Historicism

About This Novel

In our historical theoretical circles, "universal history" is often translated as "world history", which is obviously inappropriate, but the meanings of the two do overlap. The concept of "universal history" appeared in the late Middle Ages in the West, and it can be said to express the Christian understanding of the world; the concept of "world history" first appeared in the late 17th century, but was not gradually adopted until the 19th century, against the background of the formation of territorial nation-states in Europe. The term "historicism" first appeared in Germany at the end of the 18th century. By the mid-19th century, it gradually became a striking historical and philosophical orientation. It was related to the formation of the historical philosophy of Enlightenment thought and the emergence of historiography as a formal discipline in the 19th century. Its background was still the formation of territorial nation-states in Europe. Both the concept of "universal history" and the concept of "historicism" have become important and thorny issues in philosophy and intellectual history in the 20th century. As my country's strategic position in today's world political landscape continues to rise, how to understand world history from the standpoint and perspective of Chinese civilization has increasingly become an urgent theoretical issue and attracted the attention of Chinese academic circles. We not only need to understand the history of the formation of the modern world, but also the history of the West's understanding of world history. In view of some weak links in our understanding of the history of world history, this collection is first committed to selecting important original texts that have not yet been translated into Chinese, while also focusing on relevant research documents of the 20th century.

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