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| Titel: | The uniqueness of Western civilization |
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| Von: |
by Ricardo Duchesne
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| Person: |
Duchesne, Ricardo
Verfasser aut |
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| Format: | Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Veröffentlicht: |
Leiden [u.a.]
Brill
2011
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| Schriftenreihe: | Studies in critical social sciences
28 |
| Notation: | NB 3100 |
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| Umfang: | XI, 527 S. |
| ISBN: | 9789004192485 |
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
Preface
.........................................................................................................ix
Chapter One The Fall of Western Civilization and the
Rise of Multicultural World History
.....................................................1
Early World Historians and the Idea of Progress
....................................1
Termination of the Western Civilization Course
....................................4
World History Texts from the
1920s
to the
1940s...................................6
World History Texts in the
1960s...........................................................11
Rise of Dependency Theory
....................................................................13
Wallersteins
World-System and Critical Theory
..................................16
Franz Boass Relativism and Marvin Harris s
Cultural Materialism
...........................................................................19
The Conversion of William McNeill: From Rise of the
West to Interactive Webs
................................................................23
Cultural Relativism, Scientific Materialism, and
Humanism Combined
.........................................................................27
The Exclusion of Sociobiology
................................................................32
Kant s unsocial sociability
....................................................................38
Progress and the State of Nature
.............................................................42
Dynamic Man versus Reactive Man
......................................................45
The Ascendancy of Multicultural World Historians
............................51
Patrick Manning: It Takes an African Village to Write
World History
.......................................................................................56
Disparaging the West: Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
..............................62
Chapter Two Eurocentrism over Sinocentrism
................................71
The Basic Empirical Claims of the Revisionists
...................................71
The Two Arguments of Re-Orient
..........................................................74
One Asian World System?
.......................................................................79
The Role of Colonial Profits
....................................................................83
Trade, Power, and Liberty: the Secret of British Imperial
Success
...................................................................................................87
Chinas high-level equilibrium trap
....................................................93
The Geographical Limits of Chinas Post-
1400
Extensive Growth
.................................................................................96
VÍ
CONTENTS
Was Eighteenth
Century
Europe following a Malthusian
path?
.....................................................................................................102
Was traditional China a Low Fertility Regime?
..................................108
Conclusion
..............................................................................................115
Chapter Three Whence the Industrial Divergence?
.......................117
The Basic Propositions of Pomeranz s Great Divergence
...............117
Malthus
was Born too Late in a World too New
................................123
End of the Old Malthusian Regime in England
.................................130
Standard-of-Living Debate
....................................................................136
New World Resources versus European Resources
...........................140
Was Cheap Coal Sufficient or Necessary?
...........................................146
Dynamic Rather than Static Comparisons
.........................................151
Chinas Ecological Endowments and Imperial Windfalls
.................153
Chapter Four The Continuous Creativity of Europe
......................165
Hobson and the Eastern Origins of the West
.....................................165
Eurocentric Historians
...........................................................................167
Imitation, Innovation, and Invention
..................................................172
Revolution in Time
................................................................................174
The Printing Revolution
........................................................................179
The Science and Chivalry of Henry the Navigator
............................182
Columbus and the Cartographic Revolution
......................................189
The Industrial Enlightenment
...............................................................195
Goldstones
Happy Chance versus Jacobs Scientific Ethos
............199
Contingency versus Long Term Patterns
............................................203
Europe s Solo Act: A Mercantile-Militaristic State?
...........................206
Military Revolutions in Europe
1300-1800.........................................209
The Inter-State System
...........................................................................214
Greek
Hoplites
and the Western Way of War
..................................219
Mercantilism and the Birth of Political Economy
..............................222
Liberty and the States System
...............................................................226
Chapter Five The Rise of Western Reason and Freedom
.............231
The West is more than Wealth and Power
..........................................231
The Cultural Poverty of the Revisionists
.............................................239
The Cultural Richness of Max Weber
..................................................246
Judaism and its Contribution to Western Rationalism
.....................254
CONTENTS
Vil
Schluchter
on the Genetic Developmental Dynamic of
the West
...............................................................................................260
Habermas
and the Rationalization of Substantive Values
.................265
The Liberal Democratic Ideals of the West and its
Historiography
...................................................................................269
Chapter Six The Restlessness of the Western Spirit from
a Hegelian Perspective
.......................................................................285
Change without Progress in the East
...................................................285
Measuring Human Accomplishments
.................................................289
The Historiography of Europe s Revolutions
......................................297
Phenomenology of the Western Spirit
.................................................302
Hegel and the Geographical Basis of the infinite thirst
of the West
...........................................................................................308
Hegel and the Beginnings of Western Reason
....................................312
Hegel on the desire of World-Historical Individuals
......................315
The Master-Slave Dialectic and its Historical Reference
...................318
Hegel s Account of the State of Nature
.................................................325
Kojeve and the fight to the death for pure prestige
............................328
Spengler
and the Faustian Soul of the West
........................................333
McNeill and the Indo-European Roots of the West s
Warrior Ethos
.....................................................................................338
Chapter Seven The Aristocratic Egalitarianism of
Indo-Europeans and the Primordial Origins
of Western Civilization
......................................................................341
The Founding Fathers of the West: Democratic Citizens
or Aristocratic Warriors?
..................................................................341
Indo-Europeans as the Other of World History
.............................345
The Distinctive Indo-Europeanization of the West
...........................352
Chariots, Mycenaeans, and Aristocratic Berserkers
..........................363
Aristocratic and Martial Traits
.............................................................371
The Impact of Indo-Europeans on the Civilizations of
the East
................................................................................................377
Big Man Feasting and the Origins of Inequality
.............................380
Prestige-Seeking Chiefs
.........................................................................384
From Simple to Paramount
Chiefdoms...............................................388
Eastern Group-Oriented and Western Individualizing
Chiefdoms...........................................................................................390
VIU
CONTENTS
City-States: Sumerian
versus Greek
.....................................................399
The Autocratic Character of Mesopotamia and Egypt
......................402
The Epic ofGilgamesh is not a Heroic Tragedy
...................................410
Chapter Eight The Emergence of the Self from the
Western State of Nature and the Conciliation of
Christianity and Aristocratic Liberty
..............................................419
Fukuyama and the Megalothymia of the first men
of the West
...........................................................................................419
Why Hegel s Master Must be Aristocratic
........................................423
Kojeve and the first appearance of Self-Consciousness
.................428
Charles Taylor and Plato s Self-Mastery
..............................................431
The Beginnings of Genuine Personalities in History
.........................435
Nietzsche s Homer on Competition
..................................................441
Arête
and the Education of the Greeks
................................................445
The Roman Aristocratic Link
...............................................................456
The Germanic Barbarian Rejuvenation of the West
..........................460
Feudalism: an Aristocratic Type of Rule
.............................................466
Charlemagne s Continuation of the Western Tradition
....................470
Christian Virtues and Aristocratic Expansionism
.............................475
Aristocratic liberty and the Rise of Representative
Institutions
..........................................................................................481
Cited Works
.............................................................................................489
Index
........................................................................................................519
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