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Auteur(s) : Duchesne, Ricardo
Titre(s) : The uniqueness of Western civilization [Texte imprimé] / by Ricardo Duchesne
Publication : Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2011
Description matérielle : xi, 527 p. ; 25 cm
Collection : Studies in critical social sciences, ISSN 1573-4234 ; 28
Lien à la collection : Studies in critical social sciences
Comprend : 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.
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
This extensively researched book argues that the development of a libertarian culture
was an indispensable component of the rise of the West. The roots of the West's superior
intellectual and artistic creativity should be traced back to the aristocratic warlike
culture of Indo-European speakers. Among the many fascinating topics discussed are:
the ascendancy of multicultural historians and the degradation of European history;
China's ecological endowments and imperial windfalls; military revolutions in Europe
1300-1800; the science and chivalry of Henry the Navigator; Judaism and its contribution
to Western rationalism; the cultural richness of Max Weber versus the intellectual
poverty of Pomeranz, Wong, Goldstone, Goody, and A.G. Frank; change without progress
in the East; Hegel's Phenomenology of the [Western] Spirit; Nietzsche and the education
of the Homeric Greeks; Kojeve's master-slave dialectic and the Western state of nature;
Christian virtues and German aristocratic expansionism
Sujet(s) : Civilisation occidentale
Civilisation occidentale -- Historiographie
Civilisation occidentale -- Philosophie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9789004192485 (hbk.) (alk. paper). - ISBN 9004192484 (hbk.) (alk. paper)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb426894779
Notice n° :
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