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Informationen zum Autor Suzanne L. Marchand completed her BA in history at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1984 and her PhD at the University of Chicago in 1992. She then served as Assistant and Associate Professor at Princeton University (1992?, before moving to Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, where she is now Professor of European Intellectual History. She is the author of Down from Olympus: Archaeology and Philhellenism in Germany, 1750?70 (1996) as well as numerous articles on the history of art, archaeology, anthropology, classical studies, and the humanities generally. Klappentext This book provides the first synthetic and contextualized study of German Orientalistik! demonstrating both the richness and the dangers of this intriguing field. Zusammenfassung This carefully-researched book provides the first synthetic and contextualized study of German Orientalistik. The book suggests that we must take seriously German orientalism's origins in Renaissance philology and early modern biblical exegesis! and appreciate its modern development in the context of modern debates about religion and the Bible! classical schools and Germanic origins. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Orientalism and the longue duree; 2. Orientalism in a Philhellenic age; 3. The lonely orientalists; 4. The second oriental renaissance; 5. The furor orientalis; 6. Towards an oriental Christianity; 7. On Aryans and Semites; 8. Orientalism and imperialism; 9. The study of oriental arts; 10. Relations with others: the Great War and after; Epilogue; Bibliography.
