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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: strange persistence of universal history in political thought
  name:
    name part: Bowden, Brett
    name part: 1968-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2017
    copyright date: 2017
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xvii, 94 pages ; 22 cm.
  abstract: This book explores and explains the reasons why the idea of universal history, a form of teleological history which holds that all peoples are travelling along the same path and destined to end at the same point, persists in political thought. Prominent in Western political thought since the middle of the eighteenth century, the idea of universal history holds that all peoples can be situated in the narrative of history on a continuum between a start and an end point, between the savage state of nature and civilized modernity. Despite various critiques, the underlying teleological principle still prevails in much contemporary thinking and policy planning, including post-conflict peace-building and development theory and practice. Anathema to contemporary ideals of pluralism and multiculturalism, universal history means that not everyone gets to write their own story, only a privileged few. For the rest, history and future are taken out of their hands, subsumed and assimilated into other people's narrative.
  table of contents: In the beginning -- Universal history -- Progressive history -- Making history -- The ends.
  note: Brett Bowden.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: World history
  subject:
    topic: History
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Historiography
  subject:
    topic: Civilization
  classification: D13 .B68 2017
  classification: 320/.01
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Palgrave Macmillan series on the history of international thought
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Palgrave pivot
  identifier: 3319524097
  identifier: 9783319524092
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    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 161222
    record change date: 20170926115958.0
    record identifier: in00003852925