邹颉所著的《西方文化论》用平实的语言阐释了西方文化的发展历史，《西方文化论》主要包括了古希腊、古罗马、中世纪、文艺复兴、宗教改革时期、启蒙运动时期、法国大革命以及工业革命时期、当代西方世界等多个阶段，《西方文化论》突出介绍了在这些不同阶段西方的思潮。

Chapter 1 Ancient Greece: Fountainhead of Western Culture

 1.1 Homer's Epics

 1.2 The Polis

 1.3 Religion

 1.4 Philosophy

 1.5 Classical Philosophers

 1.6 History

 1.7 Poetry and Drama

 1.8 The Heritage of the Greeks

Chapter 2 Ancient Rome: Pragmatic Rationality

 2.1 Roman Law

 2.2 Literature and Art

 2.3 The Heritage of the Romans

Chapter 3 The Middle Ages: Duty of Conscience

 3.1 The Rise of Christianity

 3.2 Patristic Writers

 3.3 Thomas Aquinas

Chapter 4 The Renaissance: Human Life in This World

 4.1 The Italian Renaissance

 4.2 The Northern European Renaissance

 4.4 The Heritage of the Renaissance

Chapter 5 The Reformation: Split Within Western Christendom

 5.1 Martin Luther

 5.2 John Calvin

 5.3 The Heritage of the Reformation

Chapter 6 Scientific Revolution: New Conception of the Universe

 6.1 The Rise of Modern Science

 6.2 Rationalism and Empiricism

 6.3 New Political Theory

 6.4 The Heritage of Seventeenth-century Culture

Chapter 7 The Enlightenment: Power of Reason

 7.1 The Nature of the Enlightenment

 7.2 Philosophy and Theology

 7.3 Social Criticism

 7.4 Emotion and Unreason

 7.5 The Heritage of the Enlightenment

Chapter 8 The French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution: Political and Economic Transformation

 8.1 The French Revolution

 8.2 The Heritage of the French Revolution

 8.3 The Industrial Revolution

 8.4 The Impact of the Industrial Revolution

Chapter 9 Romanticism: Fresh Insight into Human Experience

 9.1 The Romantic Movement

 9.2 Romantic Literature

 9.3 The Romantic Social and Political Thought

 9.4 The Heritage of Romanticism

Chapter 10 Socialism: Faith in Human Progress

 10.1 Science and Technology

 10.2 Social Sciences

 10.3 Marxism

 10.4 Darwinism

 10.5 The Middle-class Moral Attitudes

 10.6 The Heritage of Socialism

Chapter 11 Psychoanalysis: Discovering Man's Inner World

 11.1 Philosophy

 11.2 Social Sciences

 11.3 Freudian Psychology

 11.4 Natural Sciences

 11.5 The Heritage of Fin de Siecle Culture

Chapter 12 Contemporary Western World: Seeking a Meaningful Existence

 12.1 The Legacy of War and Revolution

 12.2 Natural Sciences

 12.3 Social and Behavioral Sciences

 12.4 Philosophy and Theology

 12.5 The Heritage of the Twentieth Century

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