Editing A Study of History (section)

=== Legacy ===
After 1960, Toynbee's ideas faded both in academia and the media, to the point of seldom being cited today.<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=McIntire |editor1-first=C. T. |editor2-last=Perry |editor2-first=Marvin |title=Toynbee: Reappraisals |publisher=[[University of Toronto Press]] |year=1989 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Perry |first=Marvin |title=Arnold Toynbee and the Western Tradition |location=New York |publisher=[[Peter Lang (publisher)|Peter Lang]] |year=1996 |isbn=978-0820426716}}</ref> Toynbee's approach to history, his style of civilizational analysis, faced skepticism from mainstream historians who thought it put an undue emphasis on the divine, which led to his academic reputation declining, though for a time, Toynbee's ''Study'' remained popular outside academia. Nevertheless, interest revived decades later with the publication of ''[[The Clash of Civilizations]]'' (1997) by political scientist Samuel P. Huntington. Huntington viewed human history as broadly the history of civilizations and posited that the world after the end of the Cold War will be a multi-polar one of competing major civilizations divided by "fault lines."<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Kumar|first=Krishan|date=October 2014|title=The Return of Civilization—and of Arnold Toynbee?|journal=Comparative Studies in Society and History|volume=56|issue=4|pages=815–843|doi=10.1017/S0010417514000413|doi-access=free}}</ref>

In popular culture, Toynbee's theories of historical cycles and civilisational collapse are said to have been a major inspiration for [[Isaac Asimov]]'s seminal science-fiction novels, the [[Foundation (book series)|Foundation series]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Armstrong|first=Neil|title=Foundation: The 'unfilmable' sci-fi epic now on our screens|url=https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20210920-foundation-the-unfilmable-sci-fi-epic-now-on-our-screens|access-date=2021-09-30|website=www.bbc.com|language=en}}</ref>