Reading and Seeing Ethnic Differences in the Enlightenment

From China to Africa
1. Auflage 2007
ISBN: 978-1-349-53708-2
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

Buch, Englisch, 236 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 317 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tautz, B.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturtheorie: Poetik und Literaturästhetik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Hegel at the Limits Threads of a Texture: Leibniz's Translation of China Reading Sovereign Subjectivity via China Detailed Ethnicity. Perception and Gender in Travel Accounts Bodies on Stage: Late Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics of Race The Texture of History, the Color of Selves: The Turn to the Modern

Über Autor(innen)

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