03125nam 2200673Ia 450 991045120710332120200520144314.01-281-36317-097866113631780-230-60364-510.1057/9780230603646(CKB)1000000000342447(EBL)308072(OCoLC)314774217(SSID)ssj0001660380(PQKBManifestationID)16438928(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001660380(PQKBWorkID)14989097(PQKB)11487390(DE-He213)978-0-230-60364-6(MiAaPQ)EBC308072(Au-PeEL)EBL308072(CaPaEBR)ebr10171486(CaONFJC)MIL136317(EXLCZ)99100000000034244720070129d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrReading and seeing ethnic difference in the enlightenment[electronic resource] from China to Africa /Birgit Tautz1st ed. 2007.Basingstoke Palgrave Macmillan20071 online resource (247 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-349-53708-X 1-4039-7641-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Hegel at the Limits of Discourse; 2 Threads of a Texture: Leibniz's Translation of China; 3 Reading Sovereign Subjectivity via China; 4 Detailed Ethnicity: Perception and Gender in Travel Accounts; 5 Bodies on Stage: Late Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics of Blackness; 6 Reading History, Seeing Selves: The Turn to the Modern; Notes; Bibliography; IndexThis book investigates the contested ways in which eighteenth-century German philosophers, scientists, poets, and dramatists perceived and represented China and Africa from 1680 to 1830. Tautz demonstrates in compelling ways that reading China allowed for the integration of cultural difference into Enlightenment universalism, whereas seeing Africa exposed irreducible differences that undermined any claims of universality. By working through the case of eighteenth-century Germany and Europe, the book adds an important cross-cultural and historical dimension to questions relevant to our world today.German literature18th centuryHistory and criticismGerman literature19th centuryHistory and criticismEthnicity in literatureAfricaIn literatureChinaIn literatureElectronic books.German literatureHistory and criticism.German literatureHistory and criticism.Ethnicity in literature.830.9920693Tautz Birgit957088MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451207103321Reading and seeing ethnic difference in the enlightenment2168000UNINA