The Uniqueness of Western civilization
Series: Studies in Critical Social Sciences, Vol. 28
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2011
Language: eng
Format: Hardback
Number of pages: 528
ISBN-13: 9789004192485
Copyright date: 2011
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: 1. The Fall of Western Civilization and the Rise of Multicultural World History; title: 2. Eurocentrism over Sinocentrism; title: 3. Whence the Industrial Divergence?; title: 4. The Continuous Creativity of Europe; title: 5. The ‘Rise’ of Western Reason and Freedom; title: 6. The Restlessness of the Western Spirit from a Hegelian Perspective; title: 7. The Aristocratic Egalitarianism of Indo-Europeans and the Primordial Origins of Western Civilization; title: 8. The Emergence of the Self from the Western ‘State of Nature’ and the Conciliation of Christianity and Aristocratic Liberty