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Jürgen Osterhammel

Unfabling the East

The Enlightenment's Encounter with Asia

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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… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Savage, Robert (Übers.)
  • ISBN: 978-0-691-19647-3
  • EAN: 9780691196473
  • Produktnummer: 30340655
  • Verlag: University Presses
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
  • Seitenangabe: 696 S.
  • Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.6 cm

Über den Autor


Jürgen Osterhammel is Distinguished Fellow at the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS). He is a recipient of the 2017 Toynbee Prize and the 2018 Balzan Prize for Global History. His books include The Transformation of the World: A Global History of the Nineteenth Century (Princeton).

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