How China shaped the enlightenment : a transcultural history of modern thought / Martin Powers, Xiang Shuchen

Introduction: Uncovering The Mythic Origins of European Modernity

Shuchen Xiang and Martin Powers

1. Even without an Overlord: Christian Wolff and Confucianism
Heiner Roetz

2. How America’s Founders Learned that Equality Means Meritocracy
Martin Powers

3. Confucius and the American Enlightenment
Alfred Hornung

4. Francois Quesnay’s Despotisme de la Chine as a Critique of Early Political Liberalism
Dirk Schuck

5. A New Cosmology and a New Aesthetics: Pierre Bayle and the Monistic Connection of Shaftesbury to China
Yu Liu

6. Chinese Metaphysics in the Formation of European Organicist Thought: German Romanticism, Structuralism and Relational Politics
Shuchen Xiang

7. China in the Political Imaginary of Restoration England: Revisiting John Webb’s Fantasy about the Chinese Language
Longxi Zhang

8. The East-West Orientation in Immanuel Kant’s Thinking
Daniel Purdy