China in the German Enlightenment /

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"Over the course of the eighteenth century, European intellectuals shifted from admiring China as a utopian place of wonder to despising it as a backwards and despotic state. That transformation had little to do with changes in China itself, and everything to do with Enlightenment conceptions o...

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Other Authors: Purdy, Daniel L. (Editor), Brandt, Bettina (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: London : University of Toronto Press, [2016]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Race in literature.
Philosophy, German.
Orientalism in literature.
Orientalism.
Literature.
German literature.
Enlightenment.
Chinese in literature.
HISTORY > Europe > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > German.
Race dans la litterature.
Orientalisme > Allemagne > Histoire > 18e siecle.
Philosophie allemande > 18e siecle.
Siecle des Lumieres > Allemagne.
Litterature allemande > 18e siecle > Histoire et critique.
Orientalism > Germany > History > 18th century.
Philosophy, German > 18th century.
Enlightenment > Germany.
German literature > 18th century > History and criticism.
Germany.
China.
China > In literature.
Critiques litteraires.
Literary criticism.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • How the Chinese became yellow : a contribution to the early history of race theories / Walter Demel
  • Leibniz on the existence of philosophy in China / Franklin Perkins
  • Leibniz between Paris, Grand Tartary, and the Far East : Gerbillon's intercepted lettter / Michael C. Carhart
  • The problem of China : Asia and Enlightenment anthropology (Buffon, de Pauw, Blumenbach, Herder) / Carl Niekerk
  • Localizing China : of knowledge, genres, and German literary historiography / Birgit Tautz
  • Eradicating the orientalists : Goethe's Chinesisch-deutsche Jahres- und Tageszeiten / John K. Noyes
  • China on parade : Hegel's manipulation of his sources and his change of mind / Robert Bernasconi
  • Neo-Romantic modernism and Daoism : Martin Buber on the "teaching" as fulfilment / Jeffrey S. Librett.

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