Reading and Seeing Ethnic Differences in the Enlightenment

B. Tautz

ISBN 10: 1403976414 / ISBN 13: 9781403976413

Editore: SPRINGER NATURE Jun 2007, 2007

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This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -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. 236 pp. Englisch.

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• Titolo: Reading and Seeing Ethnic Differences in the Enlightenment
• Editore: SPRINGER NATURE Jun 2007
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1403976414
• ISBN 13: 9781403976413
• Rilegatura: Buch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 223 L x 149 A x 27 P (millimetri) 223 millimetri di larghezza per 149 millimetri di altezza per 27 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 424 grammi

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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.

Informazioni sull?autore

BIRGIT TAUTZ is Assistant Professor of German at Bowdoin College, USA.