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Reading and Seeing Ethnic Differences in the Enlightenment : From China to Africa / by B. Tautz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tautz, Birgit.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- European literature.
- Political science--Philosophy.
- Political science.
- Social sciences--Philosophy.
- Social sciences.
- Literature--Philosophy.
- Literature.
- Culture--Study and teaching.
- Culture.
- Intellectual life--History.
- Intellectual life.
- European Literature.
- Political Philosophy.
- Social Philosophy.
- Literary Theory.
- Cultural Theory.
- Intellectual History.
- Local Subjects:
- European Literature.
- Political Philosophy.
- Social Philosophy.
- Literary Theory.
- Cultural Theory.
- Intellectual History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (247 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2007.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book investigates the contested ways in which eighteenth-century German philosophers, scientists, poets, and dramatists perceived and represented China and Africa from 1680 to 1830. Tautz demonstrates in compelling ways that reading China allowed for the integration of cultural difference into Enlightenment universalism, whereas seeing Africa exposed irreducible differences that undermined any claims of universality. By working through the case of eighteenth-century Germany and Europe, the book adds an important cross-cultural and historical dimension to questions relevant to our world today.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 Hegel at the Limits of Discourse; 2 Threads of a Texture: Leibniz's Translation of China; 3 Reading Sovereign Subjectivity via China; 4 Detailed Ethnicity: Perception and Gender in Travel Accounts; 5 Bodies on Stage: Late Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics of Blackness; 6 Reading History, Seeing Selves: The Turn to the Modern; Notes; Bibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786611363178
- 9781281363176
- 1281363170
- 9780230603646
- 0230603645
- OCLC:
- 314774217
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