Reading and seeing ethnic difference in the enlightenment [[electronic resource] ] : from China to Africa / / Birgit Tautz

• Autore: Tautz Birgit
• Pubblicazione: Basingstoke, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
• Edizione: 1st ed. 2007.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (247 p.)
• Disciplina: 830.9920693
• Soggetto topico: German literature - 18th century - History and criticism; German literature - 19th century - History and criticism; Ethnicity in literature
• Soggetto geografico: Africa In literature; China In literature
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Reading and seeing ethnic difference in the enlightenment
• ISBN: 1-281-36317-0; 9786611363178; 0-230-60364-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910825332203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II