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Auteur(s) : Statman, Alexander
Titre(s) : A global enlightenment [Texte imprimé] : Western progress and Chinese science / Alexander Statman
Publication : Chicago ; London : University of Chicago press, copyright 2023
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (356 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
Collection : The life of ideas
Lien à la collection : The life of ideas
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages [307]-341) and index
"A Global Enlightenment is a book about the idea of Western progress, told through
a series of conversations about Chinese science. Its protagonists - an ex-Jesuit missionary,
a French statesman, a Manchu prince, Chinese literati, European savants, and other
figures of the late Enlightenment world - exchanged ideas across cultures. In telling
their stories here, Alexander Statman shows how Chinese science shaped a signature
legacy of the European Enlightenment: the idea of Western progress. By focusing on
the orphans of the Enlightenment, those who sought to vindicate ancient wisdom as
others left it behind, Statman reveals that ideas about the uniqueness of the West
- and the mystery, inscrutability, or otherness of the East - did not follow from
the Enlightenment idea of progress but had to be invented. The orphans of the Enlightenment
believed that the knowledge of the past and the East still had value for modern Europe,
and their efforts to recover and explain it, in turn, uncover an unknown story of
European engagement with Chinese science. In contrast to the common view, that over
the course of the Enlightenment non-Western ideas were banished from European thought,
Statman found that the opposite is true. Toward the end of the Enlightenment, Europeans
only grew more interested in Chinese science, and this has had lasting effects, from
the eighteenth century to today"
Sujet(s) : Mouvement des Lumières
Civilisation occidentale -- Influence chinoise
Sciences -- Chine
Sciences et civilisation
Indice(s) Dewey :
509.03 (23e éd.) = Sciences naturelles et mathématiques - 1500-1899
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780226825762. - ISBN 0226825760 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47258567d
Notice n° :
FRBNF47258567
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Introduction ; The death of Voltaire's Confucius ; The ex-Jesuit mission in China
; The origins of esotericism ; The yin-yang theory of animal magnetism ; The invention
of Eastern wisdom ; Conclusion.
