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Published by Columbia University Press, New York, 1984
ISBN 10: 0231041381ISBN 13: 9780231041386
Seller: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New Zealand
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. 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.
Published by Columbia University Press, New York, 1984
ISBN 10: 0231041381ISBN 13: 9780231041386
Seller: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New Zealand
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good-. First Edition. Previous owner's signature. Some creasing and small 3/8" tears along upper margin of dust-jacket. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover. ; xxiv, [2], 542 pages. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine Page dimensions: 232 x 152mm (9 1/8" x 6"). "For so long merely Mediterranean, humanism began to be global when the scientific reading of Avestan and Sanskrit scripts unlocked innumerable unsuspected scriptures." Schwab's study was originally published in the French language in 1950. This English translation is from 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.