China in the German Enlightenment / edited by Bettina Brandt and Daniel Leonhard Purdy.
Brandt, Bettina, editor.; Purdy, Daniel L., editor.
2016
PT289 .C55 2016eb
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Title
China in the German Enlightenment / edited by Bettina Brandt and Daniel Leonhard Purdy.
ISBN
9781442616998 (electronic book)
9781442648456
Published
Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [Engalnd] : University of Toronto Press, 2016.
Copyright
©2016
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (viii, 210 pages).
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PT289 .C55 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
830.9006
Summary
"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 of political identity and Europe's own burgeoning global power. China in the German Enlightenment considers the place of German philosophy, particularly the work of Leibniz, Goethe, Herder, and Hegel, in this development. Beginning with the first English translation of Walter Demel's classic essay "How the Chinese Became Yellow," the collection's essays examine the connections between eighteenth-century philosophy, German Orientalism, and the origins of modern race theory."-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Brandt, Bettina, editor.
Purdy, Daniel L., editor.
Series
German and European studies ; 24.
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China in the German Enlightenment.
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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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