A CONSTRUCTIVE PROOF OF THE POSSIBILITY OF HISTORIOSOPHY
Journal Title: Journal of Globalization Studies - Year 2017, Vol 8, Issue 1
Abstract
Let us first make a few remarks on the philosophy of history (= historiosophy). In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries it flourished which is evidenced by the works of Vico, Condorcet, Kant, Hegel, and Marx… Then, in the beginning of the previous cen-tury, it was Oswald Spengler and Arnold Toynbee who presented their vast visions of History. Meanwhile, the postwar period was dominated by various forms of criticism addressed to historiosophy. Interestingly, this criticism was developed in very different traditions: on the one hand, Karl R. Popper's The Open Society and Its Enemies and The Poverty of Historicism are to be mentioned in this context, on the other: Jean-Francois Lyotard's Condition postmoderne – to mention but two names. (Let us note that some connections seem to exist between this criticism of historiosophy and Ray-mond Aron's and Daniel Bell's ‘end-of-ideology’ thesis.) The core element of this criti-cism could be formulated very briefly in the following way: (non-trivial) historiosophy is impossible. These remarks are necessary to formulate my general opinion about the value of the reviewed here book by Leonid Grinin (and Andrey Korotayev– who co-authored three sections of it).
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Waldemar Czajkowski
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