The Birth of Orientalism /

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"Modern Orientalism is not a brainchild of nineteenth-century European imperialists and colonialists, but, as Urs App demonstrates, was born in the eighteenth century after a very long gestation period defined less by economic or political motives than by religious ideology. Based on sources fr...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: App, Urs, 1949-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010.
Collection:Encounters with Asia.
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Religions > Study and teaching > History > 18th century.
Orientalism > Europe > History > 18th century.
Europe > Intellectual life > 18th century.
Asia > Religion > Study and teaching > History > 18th century.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction
  • Voltaire's Veda
  • Ziegenbalg's and La Croze's discoveries
  • Diderot's Buddhist Brahmins
  • De Guignes's Chinese Vedas
  • Ramsay's Ur-tradition
  • Holwell's religion of paradise
  • Anquetil-Duperron's search for the true Vedas
  • Volney's revolutions.

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