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03919aam a2200589 i 4500 001 4167FE960CD411EEAAE9666853ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230617010022 008 220816t20232023ilua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2022039125 020 $a 0226825760 020 $a 9780226825762 035 $a (OCoLC)1346351823 040 $a ICU/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d BDX $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d TOH $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a e-fr--- $a e-fr--- 050 00 $a B802 $b .S735 2023 082 00 $a 190 $2 23/eng/20221019 100 1 $a Statman, Alexander, $e author. 245 12 $a A global enlightenment : $b western progress and Chinese science / $c Alexander Statman. 264 1 $a Chicago ; $b The University of Chicago Press, $c 2023. 300 $a 356 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a The life of ideas 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Introduction -- The death of Voltaire's Confucius -- The ex-Jesuit mission in China -- The origins of esotericism -- The yin-yang theory of animal magnetism -- The invention of Eastern wisdom. 520 $a "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"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Enlightenment. 650 0 $a Civilization, Western $x Chinese influences. 650 0 $a East and West. 650 0 $a Science $z China. 650 0 $a Science and civilization. 650 0 $a Science $x History. 650 0 $a Progress $x History. $x History. 651 0 $a France $x Intellectual life $y 18th century. 651 0 $a China $x Intellectual life $y 18th century. 650 7 $a PHILOSOPHY / General. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a Civilization, Western $x Chinese influences. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00863142 650 7 $a East and West. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00901090 650 7 $a Enlightenment. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00912527 650 7 $a Intellectual life. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00975769 650 7 $a Progress $x Philosophy. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01078728 650 7 $a Science. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01108176 650 7 $a Science and civilization. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01108517 651 7 $a China. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01206073 651 7 $a France. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204289 648 7 $a 1700-1799 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 $i Online version: $a Statman, Alexander. $t Global enlightenment $d Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2023 $z 9780226825748 $w (DLC) 2022039126 830 0 $a Life of ideas. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117015559.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=4167FE960CD411EEAAE9666853ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search