The uniqueness of Western civilization
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| Format: | Elektronisch E-Book |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2011.
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| Schriftenreihe: | Studies in critical social sciences ;
v. 28. |
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Inhaltsangabe:
- 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.