Reading and Seeing Ethnic Differences in the Enlightenment

BIRGIT TAUTZ is Assistant Professor of German at Bowdoin College, USA.

• Hegel at the Limits Threads of a Texture: Leibniz's Translation of China Reading Sovereign Subjectivity via China Detailed Ethnicity. Perception and Gender in Travel Accounts Bodies on Stage: Late Eighteenth-Century Aesthetics of Race The Texture of History, the Color of Selves: The Turn to the Modern

"This is a groundbreaking study in the field of eighteenth century and post-colonial studies. In style and content, Reading and Seeing reveals sophisticated and innovative scholarship, and is rich in scope. Tautz analyzes how key intellectuals and writers of German (1670-1830) were instrumental in mapping modern ethnic differences in a variety of genres and texts such as philosophy, drama, popular travelogues, and scholarly writing. Tautz shows how the writers were struggling to define their own subjectivities vis-a-vis their ethnic locals when looking for the appropriate rhetorical means or representing the ethnic Other while their own perceptions defied their representational means." - Peter Hoyng, Associate Professor of German, Emory University