Title Chinese sympathies media, missionaries, and world literature from Marco Polo to Goethe Daniel Leonhard Purdy

Published Ithaca [New York] Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library, 2021 ©2021

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations Series Signale: modern German letters, cultures, and thought Signale (Ithaca, N.Y.) Contents Introduction: sympathy and orientalism -- Marco Polo's fabulous imperial connections -- Jesuit channels between Europe and Asia -- The genealogy of compassionate reading -- News of the Ming dynasty's collapse -- Vondel's tragic Chinese emperor -- Wieland's secret history of cosmopolitanism -- Adam Smith and the Chinese earthquake -- Goethe reads the Jesuits -- Weimar pairings: idealism and Buddhism, Kant and the Jesuits -- World literature and Goethe's Chinese poetry Summary "Chinese Sympathies analyzes key German literary texts by placing scholarship on early modern Chinese empires and missionaries in conjunction with German media theory from the last twenty-five years (most notably, Friedrich Kittler). Daniel Leonhard Purdy traces a connection from Baroque-era missionary reports that accommodated Christianity with Confucianism to Goethe's concept of world literature, bridged by Enlightenment debates over cosmopolitanism and sympathy."-- Provided by publisher Analysis German philosophy and China, media history of Jesuits in China, Goethe reads Chinese novels, chinese culture, The Catholic origins of Cosmopolitanism Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 30, 2021) Subject Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832 -- Philosophy SUBJECT Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832 -- Philosophy Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832 fast Subject Civilization, Western -- Chinese influences. Orientalism -- Europe -- History Sympathy -- Europe -- History German literature -- Chinese influences LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German Civilization, Western -- Chinese influences German literature -- Chinese influences Intellectual life Orientalism Philosophy Sympathy SUBJECT Europe -- Intellectual life. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045726 China -- Intellectual life. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85024139 Subject China Europe Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2020058414 ISBN 9781501759758 1501759752 9781501759765 1501759760

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