Reading and Seeing Ethnic Differences in the Enlightenment: From China to Africa

by Birgit Tautz

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:134953708X

ISBN13:9781349537082

Release Date:June 2007

Publisher:Palgrave MacMillan

Length:236 Pages

Weight:0.64 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Philosophy

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