ARNOLD TOYNBEE AND THE PROCESS OF CIVILIZATIONSDombrowski, Daniel A.Cosmos & History
the basis of which it would be possible to predict major events in the modern world as well. Following H. Bergson, Toynbee considered the moving force in a civilization’s development to be the “creative minority, ” defined as the bearer of the mysticalélan vital. This minority, by respo...
Paul Rich, `Civilisations in European and World History: A Reappraisal of the Ideas of Arnold Toynbee, Fernand Braudel and Marshall Hodgson', The European Legacy, 5, 2000, pp 341-52.
RichPaulEBSCO_AspEuropean LegacyPaul Rich, `Civilisations in European and World History: A Reappraisal of the Ideas of Arnold Toynbee, Fernand Braudel and Marshall Hodgson', The European Legacy, 5, 2000, pp 341-52.