Audio only
Unfabling the East
The Enlightenment's Encounter with AsiaBy Jürgen OsterhammelNarrated by Ric Jerrom
Length25h 49m
About this audiobook
This audiobook narrated by Ric Jerrom reveals how Enlightenment Europe rediscovered its identity by measuring itself against the great civilizations of Asia
During the long eighteenth century, Europe's travelers, scholars, and intellectuals looked to Asia in a spirit of puzzlement, irony, and openness. In this panoramic and colorful book, Jürgen Osterhammel tells the story of the European Enlightenment's nuanced encounter with the great civilizations of the East, from the Ottoman Empire and India to China and Japan.
Here is the acclaimed book that challenges the notion that Europe's formative engagement with the non-European world was invariably marred by an imperial gaze and presumptions of Western superiority. Osterhammel shows how major figures such as Leibniz, Voltaire, Gibbon, and Hegel took a keen interest in Asian culture and history, and introduces lesser-known scientific travelers, colonial administrators, Jesuit missionaries, and adventurers who returned home from Asia bearing manuscripts in many exotic languages, huge collections of ethnographic data, and stories that sometimes defied belief. Osterhammel brings the sights and sounds of this tumultuous age vividly to life, from the salons of Paris and the lecture halls of Edinburgh to the deserts of Arabia, the steppes of Siberia, and the sumptuous courts of Asian princes. He demonstrates how Europe discovered its own identity anew by measuring itself against its more senior continent, and how it was only toward the end of this period that cruder forms of Eurocentrism--and condescension toward Asia—prevailed.
A momentous work by one of Europe's most eminent historians,
Unfabling the East takes readers on a thrilling voyage to the farthest shores, bringing back vital insights for our own multicultural age.
Audiobook details
GenreHistory
Length25 hrs 49 mins
Narrated byRic Jerrom
FormatAudiobook
Publish dateNov 13, 2018
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Opening Anno, Preface
12The Present and the Past, Chapter 8 - The Raw Forces of History: Apocalyptic Horsemen, Conquerors, Usurpers
2Chapter 1 - Introduction: Looking to the East
13Chapter 9 - Savages and Barbarians
3Pathways of Knowledge, Chapter 2 - Asia and Europe: Borders, Hierarchies, Equilibria
14Chapter 9 - Continued: Knights and Strangers in Crimea
4Chapter 3 - Changing Perspectives
15Chapter 10 - Real and Unreal Despots
5Chapter 4 - Traveling
16Chapter 10 - Continued: Anquetil-Duperron: The Despot's New Clothes
Show all chaptersShow less
6Chapter 4 - Continued: South Asia and Southeast Asia: Porous Borders
17Chapter 11 - Societies
7Chapter 5 - Encounters
18Chapter 11 - Continued: Castes: Religious Straitjacket or Social Utopia?
8Chapter 6 - Eyewitnesses--Earwitnesses: Experiencing Asia
19Chapter 12 - Women
9Chapter 6 - Continued: Methods of Inquisitive Class
20Chapter 13 - Into a New Age: The Rise of Eurocentrism
10Chapter 7 - Reporting, Editing, Reading: From Lived Experience to Printed Text
21Chapter 13 - Continued: Decline, Degeneration, Stagnation, Closing Anno
11Chapter 7 - Continued: The Task of the Translator
MotherlandJulia Ioffe17h 52m$40 · $0.00
Where Cowards Go to DieBenjamin Sledge8h 42m$20 · $0.00
Frederick Douglass: All 3 Memoirs in One VolumeFrederick Douglass44h 9m$2 · $0.00
I've Been to the MountaintopMartin Luther King48m5 (1)$11 · $0.00
RevolutionariesSanjeev Sanyal11h 23m$29 · $0.00
We Crossed a Bridge and It TrembledWendy Pearlman6h$24 · $0.00
Unbroken Bonds of BattleJohnny Joey Jones8h 31m$8 · $0.00
The Red RecordIda B. Wells-Barnett2h 9m$2 · $0.00
The Daughter of AuschwitzTova Friedman, Malcolm Brabant7h 54m$26 · $0.00
Lily's PromiseLily Ebert, Dov Forman8h 54m$29 · $0.00
Saving My EnemyBob Welch9h 11m$20
On Democracies and Death CultsDouglas Murray10h 38m$29 · $0.00
Across the RiverKent Babb11h 40m$29 · $0.00
Balcony Over Jerusalem: A Middle East Memoir - Israel, Palestine and BeyondJohn Lyons12h 37m$33 · $0.00
The Fire Next TimeJames Baldwin2h 25m$15
EnduranceAlfred Lansing6h 1m$20
LES MISERABLES (Illustrated Edition)Victor Hugo66h 17m$1 · $0.00
BeyondStephen Walker15h 39m$33 · $0.00
Kings and PawnsHoward Bryant10h 9m$29 · $0.00
No EscapeNury Turkel9h 30m$28 · $0.00
You may also like
George and Robert StephensonSamuel Smiles12h 9m$6 · $0.00
A Wayfarer in ChinaElizabeth Kimball Kendall8h 24m$1 · $0.00
A History of Chinese LiteratureHerbert Allen Giles9h 44m$2 · $0.00
The Old PikeThomas B. Searight16h 25m$2 · $0.00
The Life of Christopher ColumbusChristopher Columbus, Edward Everett Hale6h 43m$2 · $0.00
InterpretingMargarita Ana Moschetti1h 21m$15 · $0.00
The Railway Builders, A Chronicle of Overland HighwaysOscar Douglas Skelton5h 48m$1 · $0.00
The Ambuja StoryNarotam Sekhsaria13h 59m$33 · $0.00
Guaranteed PureTimothy E. W. Gloege12h 16m$23 · $0.00
Behind the ScreenSamuel Goldwyn7h 12m$2 · $0.00
Society in America (Summarized Edition)Harriet Martineau6h 55m$2
The Story of Geographical Discovery: How the World Became KnownJoseph Jacobs5h 50m$2 · $0.00
The face of China : Travels in east, north, central and western ChinaE. G. Kemp7h 22m$2 · $0.00
Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished SpeakerMarcus Tullius Cicero9h 29m$1 · $0.00
Ten Years in Washington: Inside Life and Scenes in Our National Capital as a Woman Sees ThemMary Clemmer18h 53m$2 · $0.00
The Adventure of EnglishBragg, Melvyn11h 50m3 (1)Free
History of the settlement of Upper Canada (Ontario,) with special reference to the Bay QuintéWilliam Canniff$2 · $0.00
The Mother TongueBill Bryson10h 45m$29 · $0.00
What I Saw in AmericaG. K. Chesterton9h 34m$2.30
Famous Composers and Their Works (Vol. 1&2)Various30h 8m$1 · $0.00