World culture? Unfinished business in universal history

Abstract The following descriptions are intended to show how the history of mankind could be written at the end of the philosophy of history and universal philosophy. We will first encounter the difficulty of classifying world historiography: Jakob Burkhardt's "Weltgeschichtliche Betrachtungen" and A. Toynbee's "Gang der Weltgeschichte" In the search for the great problems of humanity, we come across a profound existential-philosophical context. The legitimate questions about the signs of cultural exhaustion ultimately lead to the fundamental philosophical question of how a common world is possible at all. In order to arrive at this reason for the perception of the world, the aspects of universal historiography will be specified.