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Auteur(s) : Osterhammel, Jürgen (1952-....)
Titre(s) : Unfabling the East [Texte imprimé] : the Enlightenment's encounter with Asia / Jürgen Osterhammel ; translated by Robert Savage
Traduction de : Die Entzauberung Asiens
Publication : Princeton ; Oxford : Princeton University Press, [2018]
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XIII-676 p.) ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr. Bibliogr. p.[599]-622. Index
Translated from the German.
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 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
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Savage, Robert Ian (1978-....). Traducteur
Sujet(s) : Civilisation -- Europe -- 18e siècle
Eurocentrisme -- 18e siècle
Relations -- Asie -- Europe -- 18e siècle
Asie -- Opinion publique -- Europe -- 18e siècle
Sujet(s) géographique(s) :
Europe
Asie
Classement géographique :
Asie
Europe
Indice(s) Dewey :
303.482 405 (23e éd.) = Contact entre les cultures - Europe - Asie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 978-0-691-17272-9 (rel.) : 35 USD. - ISBN 0691172722. - ISBN 9780691196473. -
ISBN 0691196478
EAN 9780691172729
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb465999042
Notice n° :
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Table des matières : Machine generated contents note: I.Introduction: Looking to the East ; Asia's "Decline"
; Europe's Arrogance ; The Great Map of Mankind ; The Power of Discourse, the Burden
of Learning ; Sensing and Constructing Difference ; Spaces ; Epochs ; PATHWAYS
OF KNOWLEDGE ; II.Asia and Europe: Borders, Hierarchies, Equilibria ; Asia and Europe
in the Tsarist Empire ; The Ottoman Empire: European Great Power or Barbarian at
the Gates? ; Asia: The Preeminent Continent? ; Character and Encyclopedia ; European
Primacy and Provincialism ; III.Changing Perspectives ; Cultural Transfer and Colonialism
; Theories of Ethnocentrism ; Competition and Comparison ; Discursive Justice ;
Chinese Interviews, Indian Letters ; Niebuhr's Monkey ; IV.Traveling ; Sir John
Malcolm's Dinner Party ; A Weeping Mandarin ; Sea and Land ; East Asia: Walled
Empires ; South Asia and Southeast Asia: Porous Borders ; The Near East: A Pilgrimage
to Antiquity ; Adventurers and Renegades
Note continued: Scholars and Administrators ; V.Encounters ; Ordeals, Disappointments,
Catastrophes ; The Mysterious Mister Manning ; Interpreters and Dialogues ; Language
Barriers ; Mimesis and Deception ; A Sociology of Perception ; VI.Eyewitnesses
; Earwitnesses: Experiencing Asia ; Giants and Unicorns ; Prejudices and Preconceptions
; Autopsy ; Before the Tribunal of Philosophy ; Methods of the Inquisitive Class
; Hearing and Hearsay ; Local Knowledge: Asiatic Scholarship in European Texts ;
VII.Reporting, Editing, Reading: From Lived Experience to Printed Text ; The Travel
Account as a Tool of Inquiry ; Style and Truth ; Anthologies, Collages, Mega-Narratives
; The Task of the Translator ; Topicality and Canonicity ; Traces of Reading ;
Arts of Reading ; Fractured Representation ; THE PRESENT AND THE PAST ; VIII.The
Raw Forces of History: Apocalyptic Horsemen, Conquerors, Usurpers ; Tribal Asia:
Attila and the Consequences
Note continued: A Continent of Revolutions ; Timur: Statesman and Monster ; Nadir
Shah: Comet of War and Patriot ; Haidar Ali: Tyrant and Enlightened Reformer ; The
Modernization of Political Vulcanism ; IX.Savages and Barbarians ; Lost Savages
; Four Types of Barbarism ; The Roof of the World ; "Tartary" in Geography, the
Philosophy of History, and Ethnography ; Knights and Strangers in the Crimea ; The
Ethnology and Politics of Arabic Liberty ; Theories of Nomadism ; Triumph of the
Settlers ; X.Real and Unreal Despots ; The Heirs of Nero and Solomon ; Montesquieu
Reads Sir John Chardin ; Despotism and the Philosophy of History ; "Oriental Despotism"
under Suspicion ; Anquetil-Duperron: The Despot's New Clothes ; India: Translatio
Despotica ; Despotism with Chinese Characteristics ; The Ottoman Empire: Praetorian
Guards and Paper Tigers ; Ex Occidente Lux ; XI.Societies ; Solidarity among the
Civilized ; Cities
Note continued: Batavia's Colonial Sociology ; Close-Up: Urban Life in Syrian Aleppo
; Slaves ; Scholars and Aesthetes in Power ; Castes: Religious Straitjacket or Social
Utopia? ; Feudalism ; Masks and Emotions ; The Birth of Sociology from the Spirit
of Cultural Difference ; On Hospitality ; XII.Women ; The Cardinal Difference
; In the Realm of the Senses ; Domesticity ; Polygamy ; Labor, Liberty, and Sacrifice
; Progress and Civilization ; XIII.Into a New Age: The Rise of Eurocentrism ; Balance
and Exclusion ; From Aladdin's Cave to Developing Nation ; Decline, Degeneration,
Stagnation ; From the Theory of Civilization to the Civilizing Mission.
