The uniqueness of Western civilization [electronic resource] / by Ricardo Duchesne.
Series: Studies in critical social sciences ; v. 28.Publication details: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011.Description: xi, 527 pSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:- 909/.09821 22
- CB245 .D83 2011eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
The fall of Western civilization and the rise of multicultural world history -- Eurocentrism over Sinocentrism -- Whence the industrial divergence? -- The continuous creativity of Europe -- The "rise" of Western reason and freedom -- The restlessness of the Western spirit from a Hegelian perspective -- The aristocratic egalitarianism of Indo-Europeans and the primordial origins of Western civilization -- The emergence of the self from the Western "state of nature" and the conciliation of Christianity and aristocratic liberty.
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