Civilizational Racism and Reasonability of Historical Research Based on the Civilizational Approach

Abstract

The article considers the influence of civilizational racism ideas on the universal­ist and civilizational approaches to historical studies. According to the author, the Anglo-American hegemony in the sphere of culture, politics and science serves to devalue both approaches and disagrees with the requirements of pure science. Civilizational racism is viewed as the result of the secular transforma­tion of Anglo-Saxon Protestantism and its interaction with colonial practices. According to the logic of the article, the Anglo-Saxon version of racism is seen as a model for the entire Western society. It is distinguished by the myths of civi­lizational superiority, the principle of extraterritorial cratocracy, sacred violence with the sacred sacrifice chosen from among “non-conventional subjects” and the idea of civilizing mission. Civilizational racism is seen as a cultural metanar­rative and ‘a privileged entity’. In the future we are going to witness the increas­ing importance of the civilizational approach in connection with the trend in­volving the macroregionalization of world processes.