Bettina Brandt, Daniel Purdy

China in the German Enlightenment

Herausgeber: Brandt, Bettina; Purdy, Daniel

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

China in the German Enlightenment examines the connections between eighteenth-century philosophy, German Orientalism, and the origins of modern race theory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9781487545550
• ISBN-10: 148754555X
• Artikelnr.: 62922320

Autorenporträt

Bettina Brandt is a Teaching Professor of German and Jewish Studies at Penn State University. Daniel Leonhard Purdy is a professor of German Studies at Penn State University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Daniel Purdy and Bettina Brandt
1. How the Chinese became Yellow: A Contribution to the Early History of
Race Theories
Walter Demel
2. Leibniz on the Existence of Philosophy in China
Franklin Perkins
3. Leibniz between Paris, Grand Tartary, and the Far East: Gerbillon’s
Intercepted Letter
Michael C. Carhart
4. The Problem of China: Asia and Enlightenment Anthropology (Buffon, de
Pauw, Blumenbach, Herder)
Carl Niekerk
5. Localizing China: Of Knowledge, Genres, and German Literary
Historiography
Birgit Tautz
6. Eradicating the Orientalists: Goethe’s Chinesisch-deutsche Jahres- und
Tageszeiten
John K. Noyes
7. China on Parade: Hegel’s Manipulation of His Sources and His Change of
Mind
Robert Bernasconi
8. Neo-Romantic Modernism and Daoism: Martin Buber on the Teaching as
Fulfillment
Jeffrey S. Librett