The Orient of Europe : The Mythical Image of India and Competing Images of German National Identity
ISBN: 9781443812085
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Cambridge Scholars Publishing
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Subjects: History;

August Wilhelm Schlegel proclaimed that OC i]f the regeneration of the human species started in the East, Germany must be considered the Orient of Europe.OCO How can this remarkable identification of Germany with the subjugated oriental OCyotherOCO be explained? In The Orient of Europe, Nicholas A. Germana explores how German thinkers, especially those associated with the Early Romantic movement, set India up as an OC ideal mirror, OCO in which they could perceive the image of the Germany they longed f..


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