TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - A global enlightenment : western progress and Chinese science
T2  - The life of ideas
A1  - Statman, Alexander, kirjoittaja
LA  - eng
PP  - Chicago ; London
PB  - The University of Chicago Press
YR  - 2023
UL  - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/fikka.5635275
AB  - "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"--
SN  - 978-0-226-82576-2 kovakantinen
SN  - 0-226-82576-0
KW  - 1700-luku
KW  - Enlightenment.
KW  - Civilization, Western : Chinese influences.
KW  - East and West.
KW  - Science : China.
KW  - Science and civilization.
KW  - Science : History.
KW  - Progress : Philosophy : History.
KW  - valistus (aatteet)
KW  - tieteenhistoria
KW  - filosofia
KW  - edistys
KW  - tieteen edistyminen
KW  - France : Intellectual life : 18th century.
KW  - China : Intellectual life : 18th century.
KW  - Kiina
KW  - Ranska
ER  -