Abstract:It is a characteristic of post-modernity to say that history does not have, or, at least, will not have a direction. A civilizing process is under way, but it is no longer subject to the control of human beings, to government bureaucracy or participatory management by the whole community, in the manner of Thomas More's Utopia. On the other hand, there is the theory that history is made by great figures, Thomas Carlyle's heroes of war and peace, arts and religion, science and technology. The march of cultures a… Show more
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