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Reading and seeing ethnic differences in the Enlightenment : from China to Africa /

This book investigates the contested ways in which eighteenth-century German philosophers, scientists, poets, and dramatists perceived and represented China and Africa from 1680 to 1830. Tautz demonstrates in compelling ways that reading China allowed for the integration of cultural difference into...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Tautz, Birgit
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Edición:1st ed.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Hegel at the Limits of
  • Threads of a Texture: Leibniz's Translation of China
  • Reading Sovereign Subjectivity via China
  • Detailed Ethnicity. Perception and Gender in Travel Accounts
  • Bodies on Stage: Late Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics of Race
  • The Texture of History, the Color of Selves: The Turn to the Modern.