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The European civilization constellation: a historical sociology

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posted on 2023-06-07, 20:34 authored by Gerard Delanty
This chapter provides a critical approach to European civilisation in a way that avoids some of the traditional Eurocentric assumptions about the superiority of the West and simplistic assumptions about European heritage based on a common culture deriving from classical antiquity, Christianity, the Renaissance, and Enlightenment. It is also an approach that avoids some of the undifferentiated attacks on the idea of European civilisation as exclusively 'orientalist' in the sense of being defined exclusively in terms of a relation of superiority to the Orient.

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  • Published

Publisher

Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems Publishers

Page range

86-122

Pages

37.0

Book title

World Civilizations

ISBN

9781848266636

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  • Sociology and Criminology Publications

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  • No

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  • Yes

Editors

Robert Holton

Legacy Posted Date

2012-02-06

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