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Record Nr.

UNINA9911009154403321

Titolo

China in the German Enlightenment / / Bettina Brandt, Daniel Purdy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]

©2016

ISBN

1-4426-1700-4

1-4426-1699-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Collana

German and European Studies

Disciplina

830.9006

Soggetti

German literature - 18th century - History and criticism

Enlightenment - Germany

Philosophy, German - 18th century

Orientalism - Germany - History - 18th century

Orientalism in literature

Race in literature

Chinese in literature

Libros electronicos.

China In literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

"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."--