The uniqueness of Western civilization / by Ricardo Duchesne.
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| Superior document: | Studies in critical social sciences, v. 28 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in critical social sciences ;
v. 28. |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 527 p. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.