Format:
viii, 210 Seiten
ISBN:
9781442648456
Series Statement:
German and European studies 24
Content:
"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
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781442616998
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe China in the German enlightenment Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2016 ISBN 9781442616998
Language:
English
Subjects:
History
,
Theology
Keywords:
Deutschland
;
Aufklärung
;
Chinabild
;
China
;
Rezeption
;
Deutschland
;
Philosophie
;
Geschichte 1690-1965
;
Aufklärung
;
Deutschland
;
Chinabild
;
Orientalismus
;
Konferenzschrift
;
Konferenzschrift
Author information:
Purdy, Daniel L. 1963-
