{"product_id":"china-in-the-german-enlightenment-9781442648456","title":"China in the German Enlightenment","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eChina in the German Enlightenment\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'The book collects eight remarkably coherent essays by historians, philosophers, and Germanists... After reading these well-crafted essays, we cannot help feeling the gratification afforded by new historical knowledge.' -- Chenxi Tang The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory vol 92:02:2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction  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","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53187500573015,"sku":"9781442648456","price":38.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/china-in-the-german-enlightenment-9781442648456","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}