David Christian on big history, future history, and global identity | Thing in itself w/ Ashar Khan

David Christian is a scholar of Russian history and proponent of the big history discipline. Big history is a framework that borrows from fields across the sciences and humanities to build a consilient picture of history from the big bang to the present.
0:00 intro
0:55 how did big history come about?
5:42 language, culture, and collective learning
13:57 origin stories
21:54 humanities and the sciences
26:37 big history and traditional history
35:00 constructing a global human identity
48:12 Weber’s disenchantment and mechanistic explanations
51:50 reductionism
54:08 future history
David Christian's website:www.mq.edu.au/about_us/facult...
David Christian Books:
Future Stories: What's Next (2022)
Origin Story: A Big History of Everything (2018)
Big History: Between Nothing and Everything (2014)
Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History (2005)
A History of Russia, Central Asia and Mongolia (1998)
Bread and Salt: A Social and Economic History of Food and Drink in Russia (1984)
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