A closed country in the open seas: Engelbert Kaempfer's Japanese solution for European modernity's predicament

By offering an apology of Japan's closed country policy, Engelbert Kaempfer (1651-1716) was contributing not so much to the literature of exotic journey record, but rather to the field of European political and moral theory, and importantly to the debate over the relative merits of ancient and...

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1. Verfasser: Mervart, David (VerfasserIn)
Dokumenttyp: Article (Journal)
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: September 2009
In: History of European ideas
Year: 2009, Jahrgang: 35, Heft: 3, Pages: 321-329
ISSN:0191-6599
DOI:10.1016/j.histeuroideas.2009.02.003
Online-Zugang:Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.histeuroideas.2009.02.003
Verlag, lizenzpflichtig, Volltext: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0191659909000217
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