Thursday, March 14th, 2013 China in the Republic of Letters

DateTimeLocation
Thursday, March 14, 20134:00PM - 6:00PMSeminar Room 108N, Munk School of Global Affairs
1 Devonshire Place

Description

The talk will examine the way Leibniz envisions a Europe wide collaboration in rounding up resistance against what he considers a genuine political threat. The talk will examine not just Leibniz but also a wider range of European intellectuals and how they theorize China in the context of an emerging European identity.

Daniel Purdy is Professor of German at Penn State University, College Park and the author of The Tyranny of Elegance: Consumer Cosmopolitanism in the Era of Goethe and On the Ruins of Babel: Architectural Metaphor in German Thought.


Speakers

Daniel Purdy
Department of German Pennsylvania State University


Main Sponsor

Joint Initiative in German and European Studies

Co-Sponsors

Germanic Languages and Literatures

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