10-08-2016, 07:05 PM
A lot of the Academy has developed a knee-jerk suspicion of any grand, general historical theories. Partly this is due to the influence of Postmodernism and it's rejection of all "grand narratives", and partly because they have developed a deep suspicion of anything that can be seen as "deterministic" and encouraging predictions about the future, which is derided as "historicism", which is considered a very bad thing in the Anglo-American portion of Academia. Professional historians have become a very narrow bunch mainly focused on increasingly narrow subjects and generally see the big historical ideas of people like Spengler, Toynbee, and Durant to be "fantasy".
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