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Beschreibung
This book examines the ideas of China in the works of major thinkers in the early European Enlightenment. Against the backdrop especially of the Jesuit accounts of China which these philosophers read, imperial China was interpreted in radically divergent ways. The book thus shows how the development of political thought in the early Enlightenment was closely linked to the question of China as a positive or negative model for Europe. The book also discusses how Chinese reformers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries drew on Enlightenment writers' different views of China as they sought to envisage how China should be remodeled.
This book examines the ideas of China in the works of major thinkers in the early European Enlightenment. Against the backdrop especially of the Jesuit accounts of China which these philosophers read, imperial China was interpreted in radically divergent ways. The book thus shows how the development of political thought in the early Enlightenment was closely linked to the question of China as a positive or negative model for Europe. The book also discusses how Chinese reformers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries drew on Enlightenment writers' different views of China as they sought to envisage how China should be remodeled.
Über den Autor

Simon Kow is an Associate Professor of Humanities at the University of King's College, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction

2. The Jesuits: a swinging door

3. Pierre Bayle: a tolerant, atheistic monarchy

4. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: natural theology and universal justice

5. Montesquieu and Chinese despotism

6. Conclusion: The early European Enlightenment in Chinese political thought

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2018
Fachbereich: Volkskunde
Genre: Importe
Produktart: Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik: Völkerkunde
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9781138588066
ISBN-10: 1138588067
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Kow, Simon
Hersteller: Routledge
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 234 x 156 x 12 mm
Von/Mit: Simon Kow
Erscheinungsdatum: 10.04.2018
Gewicht: 0,348 kg
Artikel-ID: 131007447