Chinese Sympathies: Media, Missionaries, And World Literature From Marco Polo To Goethe (Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, And Thought) (Paperback)

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 missionary reports that accommodated Christianity with Confucianism to Goethe's concept of world literature, bridged by Enlightenment debates over cosmopolitanism and sympathy.--

• | Author: Daniel Leonhard Purdy, Professor of German Studies Daniel Leonhard Purdy
• | Publisher: Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library
• | Publication Date: 15-Oct-21
• | Number of Pages: 420 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1501759744
• | ISBN-13: 9781501759741