ISBN:
9781442648456
Language:
English
Pages:
viii, 210 Seiten
Additional Information:
Rezensiert in Solanki, Tanvi [Rezension von: China in the German Enlightenment] 2021
Series Statement:
German and European studies 24
Series Statement:
German and European studies
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als China in the German enlightenment
DDC:
830.9/35851
Keywords:
Enlightenment
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Philosophy, German 18th century
;
Orientalism History 18th century
;
Orientalism in literature
;
Race in literature
;
Chinese in literature
;
German literature History and criticism 18th century
;
China In literature
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Konferenzschrift 2012
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Konferenzschrift 24.02.2012-25.02.2012
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Deutschland
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Aufklärung
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Chinabild
;
China
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Rezeption
;
Deutschland
;
Philosophie
;
Geschichte 1690-1965
;
Aufklärung
;
Deutschland
;
Chinabild
;
Orientalismus
Abstract:
"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."--
Note:
"Our volume grew out from a conference held at Pennsylvania State University on 24-25 February 2012, entitled "Reading China during the Enlightenment"". - Acknowledgments, Seite ix
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