
Ricardo DuchesneThe University of New Brunswick, Saint John · Former member of Department of Social Science
Ricardo Duchesne
Doctor of Philosophy
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This is a historiographical inquiry showing that Western civilization originated the writing of history, produced the greatest historical studies. As it experienced development or actual novelties in knowledge, institutions, and technologies, it developed the idea of progress under the influence of Christianity, and eventually modern liberalism and...
This essay acknowledges Joseph Henrich's landmark analysis of how medieval Europeans were already psychologically distinct from the kinship-oriented peoples of other civilizations long before the rise of modern science and liberal thought. It then shows that Europeans already exhibited WEIRD psychological traits in ancient Greek times, along with m...
The old Hegelian-Weberian interpretation of Chinese intellectual culture remains valid in its essentials. The verdict of the best up-to-date scholarship, if you look past its ostensible statements about “the great flowerings of Chinese intellectual life,” merely qualifies the broad emphasis of the Hegelian-Weberian view. Every major philosophical
o...
Jean Piaget's argument that human cognition develops stage by stage, from sensorimotor, through preoperational and concrete operations, to formal operations, is generally endorsed as a "remarkably fruitful" model. Even the strongest critics admit that his observations accurately show that substantial differences do exist between the cognitive proce...
The "Axial Age" (700-200 BC) was the intellectual culmination of the non-Western world, but only the beginning of the unsurpassed achievements of Europeans who were already way more advanced mentally in ancient Greek times, unique in their "consciousness of consciousness," which would allow them to originate a continuous sequence of novelties in al...
liad is the cornerstone of the Western canon. W.C. Bryant’s verse translation has been acclaimed for over a century...In his foreword, Ricardo Duchesne makes clear that Iliad is something more than an expression of a generic “human condition”—it is an expression of a distinctly and uniquely Indo-European aristocratic warrior ethos. Moreover, as he...
Gregorie Canlorbe interviews Ricardo Duchesne about the Leftist academic degradation of Western Civilization, his neo-Nietzschean argument about the aristocratic-warlike culture of Indo-Europeans, Islamic militarism versus European Faustian expansionism, the connection between the Enlightenment and the "Great Replacement," Hegel's master-slave dial...
https://merionwest.com/2018/09/07/canada-in-decay-is-true-to-western-liberal-values-a-rejoinder/
https://merionwest.com/2018/08/28/liberal-nations-do-not-require-immigrant-diversity-a-reply-to-matt-mcmanuss-review-of-canada-in-decay/
Canada In Decay is the first scholarly book questioning the undemocratic policy of mass immigration and racial diversification in Canada. The entire Canadian political establishment, the mainstream media and the academics, are all in harmonious unison with the banks and corporations in promoting two myths to justify mass immigration.
The first my...
At this pivotal moment in recent Western history, Richard Duchesne tackles what may be the most crucial question for people of European descent: ‘What makes us unique?’
Casting aside the dominant cultural Marxist narratives and dismissing the popular media attacks on concepts of ‘whiteness’, Duchesne draws on a range of historical examples, source...
Europe did not "under-develop" the Third World; on the contrary, the diffusion of European science and technology has been the ultimate factor responsible for development outside the West.
This paper contrasts the historical significance of the Indo-European to the non-Indo-European
nomads. The impact of such nomadic peoples as the Scythians, Sogdians, Turks, and Huns never
came close to the deep and lasting changes associated with the ‘Indo-Europeanization’ of the
Occident. While Indo-Europeans were not the only people of the steppe...
This paper defends the ‘Kurgan hypothesis,’ the uniqueness of the epic heroic poetry of Indo-
Europeans, and the uniqueness of Western civilization generally. The term ‘uniqueness’ is defined
and associated with cultural creativity rather than with global economic and military dominance
only.
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...
This paper defends the traditional argument that sometime in the medieval/early modern era Europe took a historical path that set it decisively apart from other civilizations. The claim is not that medieval/early modern Europe was already more advanced than Asia in terms of overall economic performance, technological capability, and living standard...
This paper assimilates aspects of the world-historic perspective of dependency theory, especially the work of Andre Gunder Frank, and the way it illuminates the specific role Puerto Rico's economy has played in the international division of labour. The paper argues that the industrialization of Puerto Rico in the period between 1948 and 1980 can be...
The one virtue I can find in Stark’s essay, as it was adapted from his book Victory of Reason, is that it might stimulate a serious discussion about why Christianity was the only religion to cultivate a philosophical outlook consistent with the rational investigation of nature and the rise of a liberal democratic culture. Right from the opening par...
It is only in Western Europe that the whole pattern of culture is to be found in a continuous succession and alternation of free spiritual movements; so that every century of Western history shows a change in the balance of cultural elements, and the appearance of some new spiritual force which creates new ideas and institutions and produces a furt...
Navigating World History: Historians Create a Global Past . By Patrick Manning (Palgrave Macmillan, 2003), 384 pp. £50.00 cloth; £18.99 paper.
For a long time, scholars have tried to explain why Europe alone of the great civilizations of the world achieved a profound transformation in output and productivity in the nineteenth century. Ken Pomeranz’s The Great Divergence is a recent, highly praised intervention in this debate. He argues that, as late as 1800, Chinese living standards and p...
The liberal idea that human history could be comprehended as a rational process, having an intelligible order, which could be described in terms of successive stages of cognitive/technical and moral knowledge, commanded wide credence in the West from the Enlightenment onwards until the 1960s. While there were many interpretations about the forces w...
How manytimes do we not hear in academia that a new paradigm has emerged and for-mer certainties no longer hold sway? One of the editorial reviews of James Lee and WangFeng’s (2001) One Quarter of Humanity: Malthusian Mythology and Chinese Realities,1700–2000 promises us that this book “presents evidence about historical and contempo-raryChinese po...
Arguing that Rodney was an original thinker among British Marxists, this article examines his historiographical approach to the English medieval peasantry, and in particular his contribution to the transition debate. As a consequence of their focus either on landlord enclosure or on the role of merchant capital, Marxists such as Dobb and Tawney mai...
Numerous theories have been advanced explaining
the transition from feudalism to capitalism in western Europe,
frequently by Marxists in the pages of Science & Society.
Recently, however, a new group of world historians have mounted
a concerted empirical attack on this “Eurocentric” perspective.
They argue that as late as 1750–1800 China was the do...
This paper is an immanent critique of Robert Brenner’s writings on the transition from feudalism to capitalism. The concept “immanent” is defined as a logic of implication, according to which a text or theory is evaluated within the terms that it sets for itself, to determine whether its objectives and assumptions are true in the way they are said...
This paper is a study of Puerto Rico's development experience from 1948 to 1980. It examines the triadic articulation of colonial, neocolonial and industrial status that has characterized this development, in terms of two major contending schools of imperialism and development: the classical Marxist and dependency theories. Taking Puerto Rico as a...