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Marshall Hodgson and the University of Chicago Marshall Hodgson and the University of Chicago
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International Collective Efforts toward Non-Eurocentric World Histories International Collective Efforts toward Non-Eurocentric World Histories
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Hodgson and the Scientific and Cultural History of Mankind Hodgson and the Scientific and Cultural History of Mankind
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Six Decentering World History: Marshall Hodgson and the UNESCO Project
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Published:November 2018
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Abstract
Katja Naumann’s extensive research in the archives of the University of Chicago begins by evoking Hodgson’s participation in the Committee on Social Thought, an interdisciplinary seminar which became a nucleus for the conceptual reflection towards interrelated and comparative histories emerged in Chicago. Here Hodgson debated with William H. McNeill, a world history colleague, and anthropologist Robert Redfield on how to overcome universalist and Eurocentric accounts of the world’s past. Naumann suggests that Hodgson’s world historical views derived not only from the Chicago intellectual environment, but also from international ventures, in particular the UNESCO Scientific and Cultural History of Mankind (1951-1975), where he collaborated in the edition of volume four, headed by Louis Gottschalk. Hodgson’s constructivist, self-reflective and idiosyncratic effort to decenter world historical narratives shaped and was shaped in this truly global collaborative project. It started off with conceptual universalism, but ended with the recognition that a comprehensive, timeless and neutral world history is impossible. Naumann argues that Hodgson was part of an entire generation of world historians who sought to coming to terms with and to transcend the limits of traditional universal histories. Perhaps this might be a good moment to re-engage with their spirit.
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