A PARADIGM OF WORLD
HISTORY
What I’d like to
propose is a model for transformation in the study of history, art and literature
as world history and as comparative history. How do we shift from the paradigm
of the general and essentializing nature of Hegel and institutionalization in
the profession of history, via Leopold Ranke, with their Eurocentric emphasis,
to a meaningful and relevant world history that allows for the comparisons of
culture, civilization, nation and society?
One of the ways is to integrate the study of history with that of the
arts and literature.
There too, in the
arts, we have seen older paradigms, which undertook the study of art or Literature,
as the old territory of Eurocentrism, In
literature, the reading of texts, particularly in the United States emphasized
the use of close reading, but within it, a shift from the close reading of
individual texts to the construction of abstract models.
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