Unfabling the East : the Enlightenment's encounter with Asia
Zusammenfassung: 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.
- Weitere Titel
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Die Entzauberung Asiens
- Standort
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
- ISBN
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9780691172729
0691172722
- Maße
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24 cm
- Umfang
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xiii, 676 Seiten
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Englisch
- Anmerkungen
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Lizenz des Verlag Beck, München
- Schlagwort
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Geschichte 1680-1830
Geschichte 1680-1830
Soziale Wahrnehmung
Aufklärung
Soziale Wahrnehmung
Asienbild
Aufklärung
Asienbild
Aufklärung
Kulturbeziehungen
Kulturkontakt
Interkulturalität
Europa
Asien
Europa
Asien
Europa
Europa
Europa
Westeuropa
Eurasien
Ferner Osten
Orient
Ostasien
Asien
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Princeton, Oxford
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Princeton University Press
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[2018]
- Urheber
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Beteiligte
- Osterhammel, Jürgen
- Princeton University Press
Entstanden
- [2018]