From Spatial-Temporal Order to World History:The Anthropological Orientation of Marx's Theory of World History
By drawing on Marx's intellectual connections with the Western anthropological tradition,Marx's theory of world history can acquire a meaning of human history that differs from the explanatory model of globalization of capital.On this basis,Marx's theory of world history criticizes the process of modern world history dominated by capital in factual description and meanwhile constructs the basic direction of human world history beyond the logic of capital in historical critique.It can be seen that Marx's theory of world history has a distinct anthropological orientation,providing the historical coordinates for understanding the modern world and proposing a new direction of human history that transcends the contemporary world.