Chinese Sympathies : Media, Missionaries, and World Literature from Marco Polo to Goethe

Chinese Sympathies Media, Missionaries, and World Literature from Marco Polo to Goethe

"Chinese Sympathies analyzes key German literary texts by placing scholarship on early modern Chinese empires and missionaries in conjunction with German media theory from the last twenty-five years (most notably, Friedrich Kittler). Daniel Leonhard Purdy traces a connection from Baroque-era mi...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Purdy, Daniel L., author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press 2021
2021.
Series:Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought
Subjects:
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, > 1749-1832 > Philosophy.
German literature > Chinese influences.
Sympathy > Europe > History.
Orientalism > Europe > History.
Civilization, Western > Chinese influences.
China > Intellectual life.
Europe > Intellectual life.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009649792106719
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: sympathy and orientalism
  • Marco Polo's fabulous imperial connections
  • Jesuit channels between Europe and Asia
  • The genealogy of compassionate reading
  • News of the Ming dynasty's collapse
  • Vondel's tragic Chinese emperor
  • Wieland's secret history of cosmopolitanism
  • Adam Smith and the Chinese earthquake
  • Goethe reads the Jesuits
  • Weimar pairings: idealism and Buddhism, Kant and the Jesuits
  • World literature and Goethe's Chinese poetry.

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