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Title China in the German Enlightenment / edited by Bettina Brandt and Daniel Leonhard Purdy
Published Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2016]
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Description 1 online resource (viii, 210 pages)
Series German and European studies ; 24
German and European studies ; 24.
Contents 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
Summary "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."-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject 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.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- German.
HISTORY -- Europe -- General.
Chinese in literature
Enlightenment
German literature
Literature
Orientalism
Orientalism in literature
Philosophy, German
Race in literature
SUBJECT China -- In literature. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024204
Subject China
Germany
Genre/Form Literary criticism
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.
Form Electronic book
Author Brandt, Bettina, editor.
Purdy, Daniel L., editor.
ISBN 9781442616998
1442616997