Daniel L Purdy
Author
Series
Publisher
Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource : illustrations
Language
English
Description
"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...
Author
Series
Publisher
Cornell University Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 online resource.
Language
English
Description
Purdy surveys the volatile state of architectural theory in the Enlightenment, brought on by the newly emerged scientific critiques of Renaissance cosmology, then shows how German writers deployed Renaissance terminology so that 'harmony' & 'unity' became states of consciousness, rather than terms used to describe the built world.