China in the German Enlightenment /

China in the German Enlightenment /

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Imprint:	Toronto ; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press, [2016]
Description:	viii, 210 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	German and European studies ; 24 German and European studies ; 24.
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. Chinese in literature. Enlightenment. German literature. Literature. Orientalism. Orientalism in literature. Philosophy, German. Race in literature. China -- In literature. China. Germany. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10782300

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Other authors / contributors:	Purdy, Daniel L., editor. Brandt, Bettina, editor.
ISBN:	9781442648456 1442648457
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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."--

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