Historical Teleologies in The Modern World

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ID23512913
EditorsHenning Trüper (0000-0003-0660-7957), Dipesh Chakrabarty (0000-0003-0637-644X), Sanjay Subrahmanyam (0000-0001-7781-086X)
Year2015
Publication date2015-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueHistorical Teleologies in The Modern World (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBloomsbury Publishing plc (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.5040/9781474221108
OpenAlexW2775469383
ISBN9781474221108
LanguageEN
Citations received10

Historical Teleologies in the Modern World tracks the fragmentation and proliferation of teleological understandings of history – the notion that history had to be explained as a goal-directed process – in Europe and beyond throughout the 19th and into the 20th century. Historical teleologies have profoundly informed a variety of other disciplines, including modern philosophy, natural history, literature, humanitarian and religious philanthropism, the political thought and practice of revolution, emancipation, imperialism, colonialism and anti-colonialism, the conceptualization of universal humankind, and the understanding of modernity in general. By exploring the extension and plurality of historical teleology, the essays in this volume revise the history of historicity in the modern period. Historical Teleologies in the Modern World casts doubt on the idea that a single, if powerful, conception of time could function as the unifying principle of all modern historicity, instead pursuing an investigation of the plurality of modern historicities and its underlying structures. By bringing together Western and non-Western histories, this book provides the first extended treatment of the idea of historical teleology. It will be of great value to students and scholars of modern global and intellectual history.

Ancient history · Colonialism · Conceptualization · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Historicity (philosophy) · Modern history · Modernity · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Teleology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · History · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought

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