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 [PDF ebook]
China in the German Enlightenment [PDF ebook]
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Språk Engelska ● Formatera PDF ● Sidor 224 ● ISBN 9781442616998 ● Redaktör Bettina Brandt & Daniel Purdy ● Utgivare University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division ● Publicerad 2016 ● Nedladdningsbara 3 gånger ● Valuta EUR ● ID 6566988 ● Kopieringsskydd Adobe DRM
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