Raymon Schwab: The Oriental Renaissance: Europe's ..., Blenheim in Blenheim, Marlborough for sale

Ex-library. Usual library stamps and markings. A couple of ink marks to top page edges. Dustjacket in plastic cover taped to boards with small pieces of adhesive tape. ; 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
Raymon Schwab: The Oriental Renaissance: Europe's Rediscovery of India and the East, 1680-1880
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
Vendor rating
Topic
History, Civilization
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