Titlebook: Reading and Seeing Ethnic Differences in the Enlightenment; From China to Africa Birgit Tautz Book 2007 Birgit Tautz 2007 aesthetics.drama.

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ence into Enlightenment universalism, whereas seeing Africa exposed irreducible differences that undermined any claims of universality. By working through the case of eighteenth-century Germany and Europe, the book adds an important cross-cultural and historical dimension to questions relevant to our world today.978-1-349-53708-2978-0-230-60364-6

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Book 2007 China and Africa from 1680 to 1830. Tautz demonstrates in compelling ways that reading China allowed for the integration of cultural difference into Enlightenment universalism, whereas seeing Africa exposed irreducible differences that undermined any claims of universality. By working through the c

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Hegel at the Limits of Discourse,ainst locales, nations, and regions that were left behind and that inscribe an insurmountable, ontological difference from history’s ultimate purpose. On the other hand, depictions of the “other ethnic world” emerge as a noncoherent compilation, pitting against each other images that simulate either

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Reading Sovereign Subjectivity via China,hysical principle of predetermination. To him, China expressed its essence in a writing system and culture of historical literacy—and legibility—driven by reason and literally depicting the . behind the .. As reason articulated its worldly presence through the Chinese characters, reading the charact

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Detailed Ethnicity: Perception and Gender in Travel Accounts,iew, identifying various processes that both demarcate and integrate difference as a symptom of universal reason and recognition. These processes are exemplified by Leibniz’s use of translation and by Wolff’s portrayal of Confucius and the Western philosopher as each other’s mirror or counterpart. D

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Bodies on Stage: Late Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics of Blackness,multaneously enact, threaten, and efface autonomous subjectivity. Eager to tame dazzling visions, distracting scents, and a general surplus of new impressions, the authors labored to restore the unity of the subject while holding up the alleged “truth” of traditional accounts as an imperative of rep

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,Threads of a Texture: Leibniz’s Translation of China,, an exchange with Andreas Müller on the legendary . (1679), an edition of Jesuit writings about China, . (1697–99), and, curiously, a letter he wrote to his patron for the New Year in 1697 entitled “The Mystery of Creation: A New Year’s Letter to the Duke Rudolph August of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Wolfenbüttel.”.