Unfabling the East The Enlightenment's Encounter with Asia by Jürgen Osterhammel
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Unfabling the East The Enlightenment's Encounter with Asia by Jürgen Osterhammel
epub | 2.21 MB | English | Isbn: 0691196478 | Author: Jürgen Osterhammel | Year: 2018
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How Enlightenment Europe rediscovered its identity by measuring itself against the great civilizations of Asia 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, Edward 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...
Category:16th Century World History, 17th Century World History, History of Asia
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