Price: NZ$148.50
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Book Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket
Ex-library. Library stamps and markings, including paper label at tail of spine, card pocket at rear endpaper, and "Withdrawn" rubber stamps. ; xxiv, [2], 542 pages. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 233 x 151mm. "For so long merely Mediterranean, humanism began to be global when the scientific reading of Avestan and Sanskrit scripts unlocked innumerable unsuspected scriptures." - quote from Schwab on dust wrapper blurb. Text in English. Schwab's study was originally published in French in 1950. Chapter titles include: There is an Oriental Renaissance; Establishing the Text; Europe learns Sanskrit; The Progress of Oriental Studies; Repercussions in Literature; Founders and Intermediaries; India and the Blossoming of Lamartine; Vigny Tempted by India; From Historical Poetry to Poetical History; An External Orient: Exoticism; The India of Schopenhauer; The Iran of Nietzsche; The Buddhism of Wagner; Russian Orientalism and Nonviolence; The Dialogue Between Creedson the Question of the Soul; An Age of Relativism; The Orient, the Supreme Romanticism.
Title: The Oriental Renaissance: Europe's Rediscovery of India and the East, 1680-1880
Categories: Other,
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: New York, Columbia University Press: 1984
ISBN Number: 0231041381
ISBN Number 13: 9780231041386
Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good- with no dust jacket
Seller ID: 19712
