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Over 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.
China in the German Enlightenment 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.
Contents
Introduction
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
