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Unfabling the East
The Enlightenment's Encounter with Asia
Taschenbuch von Jürgen Osterhammel
Sprache: Englisch

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During the long eighteenth century, Europe's travelers, scholars, and intellectuals looked to Asia in a spirit of puzzlement, irony, and openness. In this panoramic and colorful book, Jürgen Osterhammel tells the story of the European Enlightenment's nuanced encounter with the great civilizations of the East, from the Ottoman Empire and India to China and Japan. Here is the acclaimed book that challenges the notion that Europe's formative engagement with the non-European world was invariably marred by an imperial gaze and presumptions of Western superiority. Osterhammel shows how major figures such as Leibniz, Voltaire, Gibbon, and Hegel took a keen interest in Asian culture and history, and introduces lesser-known scientific travelers, colonial administrators, Jesuit missionaries, and adventurers who returned home from Asia bearing manuscripts in many exotic languages, huge collections of ethnographic data, and stories that sometimes defied belief. Osterhammel brings the sights and sounds of this tumultuous age vividly to life, from the salons of Paris and the lecture halls of Edinburgh to the deserts of Arabia, the steppes of Siberia, and the sumptuous courts of Asian princes. He demonstrates how Europe discovered its own identity anew by measuring itself against its more senior continent, and how it was only toward the end of this period that cruder forms of Eurocentrism--and condescension toward Asia--prevailed.
During the long eighteenth century, Europe's travelers, scholars, and intellectuals looked to Asia in a spirit of puzzlement, irony, and openness. In this panoramic and colorful book, Jürgen Osterhammel tells the story of the European Enlightenment's nuanced encounter with the great civilizations of the East, from the Ottoman Empire and India to China and Japan. Here is the acclaimed book that challenges the notion that Europe's formative engagement with the non-European world was invariably marred by an imperial gaze and presumptions of Western superiority. Osterhammel shows how major figures such as Leibniz, Voltaire, Gibbon, and Hegel took a keen interest in Asian culture and history, and introduces lesser-known scientific travelers, colonial administrators, Jesuit missionaries, and adventurers who returned home from Asia bearing manuscripts in many exotic languages, huge collections of ethnographic data, and stories that sometimes defied belief. Osterhammel brings the sights and sounds of this tumultuous age vividly to life, from the salons of Paris and the lecture halls of Edinburgh to the deserts of Arabia, the steppes of Siberia, and the sumptuous courts of Asian princes. He demonstrates how Europe discovered its own identity anew by measuring itself against its more senior continent, and how it was only toward the end of this period that cruder forms of Eurocentrism--and condescension toward Asia--prevailed.
Über den Autor
Jürgen Osterhammel
Translated by Robert Savage
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 696
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780691196473
ISBN-10: 0691196478
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Osterhammel, Jürgen
Übersetzung: Savage, Robert
Besonderheit: Unsere Aufsteiger
Hersteller: Princeton University Press
Maße: 228 x 151 x 46 mm
Von/Mit: Jürgen Osterhammel
Erscheinungsdatum: 19.11.2019
Gewicht: 1,025 kg
preigu-id: 115683715
Über den Autor
Jürgen Osterhammel
Translated by Robert Savage
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 696
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9780691196473
ISBN-10: 0691196478
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Osterhammel, Jürgen
Übersetzung: Savage, Robert
Besonderheit: Unsere Aufsteiger
Hersteller: Princeton University Press
Maße: 228 x 151 x 46 mm
Von/Mit: Jürgen Osterhammel
Erscheinungsdatum: 19.11.2019
Gewicht: 1,025 kg
preigu-id: 115683715
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