Faith and the Philosophy of History

Abstract The late professor Martin Wight (1913–1972), a historian and scholar of International Relations, conducted research on many topics, including British colonial history, European Studies, international institutions, and the history and sociology of states-systems. This volume draws together many of Wight’s previously unpublished, obscurely published, and anonymous writings about faith and the philosophy of history. Owing to his premature death at the age of 58, he was unable to complete several works in progress, partly because his perfectionism led him to refrain from publishing many of them. He nonetheless wrote original and striking works regarding secular and sacred history since antiquity, with…