The Anxiety of Autonomy and the Aesthetics of German Orientalism

by Nicholas A Germana

A history of Kantian and post-Kantian thought and of a foundational stage of German orientalism.

German orientalism has been understood, variously, as a form of latent colonialism, as a quest for academic hegemony in Europe, and as an effort to diagnose and treat the ills of modern Western culture. Nicholas Germana identifiesa different impetus for orientalism in German thought, seeing it as an effort to come to grips with the Other within...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1640140026
• ISBN13: 9781640140028
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Camden House (NY)
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.1"