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.
Bettina Brandt & Daniel Purdy
China in the German Enlightenment [EPUB ebook]
China in the German Enlightenment [EPUB ebook]
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Limba Engleză ● Format EPUB ● Pagini 224 ● ISBN 9781442617001 ● Editor Bettina Brandt & Daniel Purdy ● Editura University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division ● Publicat 2016 ● Descărcabil 3 ori ● Valută EUR ● ID 6566989 ● Protecție împotriva copiilor Adobe DRM
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