The Uniqueness of Western CivilizationBRILL, 2011. 2. 7. - 527ÆäÀÌÁö 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. |
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The Fall of Western Civilization and the Rise of Multicultural World History | 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 WorldSystem and Critical Theory | 16 |
Franz Boass Relativism and Marvin Harriss Cultural Materialism | 19 |
From Rise of the West to Interactive Webs | 23 |
Liberty and the States System | 226 |
Chapter Five The Rise of Western Reason and Freedom | 231 |
The Cultural Poverty of the Revisionists | 239 |
The Cultural Richness of Max Weber | 246 |
Judaism and its Contribution to Western Rationalism | 254 |
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 |
Cultural Relativism Scientific Materialism and Humanism Combined | 27 |
The Exclusion of Sociobiology | 32 |
Kants unsocial sociability | 38 |
Progress and the State of Nature | 42 |
Dynamic Man versus Reactive Man | 45 |
The Ascendancy of Multicultural World Historians | 51 |
It Takes an African Village to Write World History | 56 |
Felipe FernandezArmesto | 62 |
Chapter Two Eurocentrism over Sinocentrism | 71 |
The Two Arguments of ReOrient | 74 |
One Asian World System? | 79 |
The Role of Colonial Profits | 83 |
the Secret of British Imperial Success | 87 |
Chinas highlevel equilibrium trap | 93 |
The Geographical Limits of Chinas Post1400 Extensive Growth | 96 |
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 |
Malthus was Born too Late in a World too New | 123 |
End of the Old Malthusian Regime in England | 130 |
StandardofLiving 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 |
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 |
A MercantileMilitaristic State? | 206 |
Military Revolutions in Europe 13001800 | 209 |
The InterState System | 214 |
Greek Hoplites and the Western Way of War | 219 |
Mercantilism and the Birth of Political Economy | 222 |
Chapter Six The Restlessness of the Western Spirit from a Hegelian Perspective | 285 |
Measuring Human Accomplishments | 289 |
The Historiography of Europes 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 WorldHistorical Individuals | 315 |
The MasterSlave Dialectic and its Historical Reference | 318 |
Hegels 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 IndoEuropean Roots of the Wests Warrior Ethos | 338 |
Chapter Seven The Aristocratic Egalitarianism of IndoEuropeans and the Primordial Origins of Western Civilization | 341 |
IndoEuropeans as the Other of World History | 345 |
The Distinctive IndoEuropeanization of the West | 352 |
Chariots Mycenaeans and Aristocratic Berserkers | 363 |
Aristocratic and Martial Traits | 371 |
The Impact of IndoEuropeans on the Civilizations of the East | 377 |
Big Man Feasting and the Origins of Inequality | 380 |
PrestigeSeeking Chiefs | 384 |
From Simple to Paramount Chiefdoms | 388 |
Eastern GroupOriented and Western Individualizing Chiefdoms | 390 |
Sumerian versus Greek | 399 |
The Autocratic Character of Mesopotamia and Egypt | 402 |
The Epic of Gilgamesh 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 |
Why Hegels Master Must be Aristocratic | 423 |
Kojeve and the first appearance of SelfConsciousness | 428 |
Charles Taylor and Platos SelfMastery | 431 |
The Beginnings of Genuine Personalities in History | 435 |
Nietzsches 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 |
an Aristocratic Type of Rule | 466 |
Charlemagnes Continuation of the Western Tradition | 470 |
Christian Virtues and Aristocratic Expansionism | 475 |
Aristocratic liberty and the Rise of Representative Institutions | 481 |
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