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Unfabling the East - The Enlightenment's Encounter with Asia (Hardcover)
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Unfabling the East - The Enlightenment's Encounter with Asia (Hardcover)
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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, Jurgen 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 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 manuscripts in many
exotic languages, huge collections of ethnographic data, and
stories that sometimes defied belief. Osterhammel brings the sights
and sounds of this tumultuous age vividly to life, from the salons
of Paris and the lecture halls of Edinburgh to the deserts of
Arabia, the steppes of Siberia, and the sumptuous courts of Asian
princes. He demonstrates how Europe discovered its own identity
anew by measuring itself against its more senior continent, and how
it was only toward the end of this period that cruder forms of
Eurocentrism--and condescension toward Asia-prevailed. A momentous
work by one of Europe's most eminent historians, Unfabling the East
takes readers on a thrilling voyage to the farthest shores,
bringing back vital insights for our own multicultural age.
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