The Global in Enlightenment Historical Thought
The Global in Enlightenment Historical Thought
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启蒙历史思想中的全球性
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10.1002/9781118525395.ch12
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2014
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J. Pitts
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J. Pitts
对于启蒙运动历史学家来说，现代性和全球视野是密不可分的。对于启蒙运动历史学家来说，如何叙述过去和未来的世界历史这个问题比他们的基督教前辈或他们的继承人更加开放，他们都认为历史正在朝着一个清晰且相对可预测的方向发展。我们可能认为全球历史在启蒙运动期间采取了两种主要形式。两种类型的全球历史——哲学的和商业的——都有独特的道德目的和紧迫性。我们所谓的欧洲狭隘普遍主义在全球历史的胜利主义叙述中是显而易见的，这些叙述将文明的欧洲描绘成将其他国家从落后中拯救出来，并将他们纳入历史的进步运动中。
Modernity and a global perspective were inseparable for Enlightenment historians. The question how to narrate world history, past and future, was more open for Enlightenment historians than it had been for their Christian predecessors, or would be for their heirs, both of whom saw history as moving in a clear and relatively predictable direction. We might think of global history as taking two primary forms during the Enlightenment. Both kinds of global history – the philosophical and the commercial – had a distinct moral purpose and urgency. What we might call European parochial universalism is obvious in the more triumphalist accounts of global history, which portrayed a civilized Europe as rescuing others from backwardness and incorporating them into the progressive movement of history.