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Ex-library. Some library stamps and markings, including library card pocket at rear. Condition nevertheless very good, not a widely circulated copy. Rubber stamps of Carol Joseloff Taub Memorial Library, St. John's School. Also with"Withdrawn"rubber stamps.; xxiv, [2], 542 pages. Page dimensions: 232 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. Schwab's study was originally published in the French language in 1950. This English translation is copyrighted 1984. Selected chapter titles: 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. ; 8vo
The Oriental Renaissance: Europe's Rediscovery of India and the East, 1680-1880 (Raymon Schwab)
Author
Raymon Schwab
Title
The Oriental Renaissance: Europe's Rediscovery of India and the East, 1680-1880
Publisher name
Columbia University Press, New York
Shipping time
2 - 5 days
Publication year
1984
Edition
First edition
Binding type
Hard cover
Listing condition
Used
Item condition
Very good
Vendor name
Renaissance Books
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