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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| Format: | Article (Journal) |
| Language: | English |
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September 2009
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History of European ideas
Year: 2009, Volume: 35, Issue: 3, Pages: 321-329 |
| ISSN: | 0191-6599 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.histeuroideas.2009.02.003 |
| Online Access: | 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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| Author Notes: | David Mervart |