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The Birth of Orientalism

By: Urs App

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Modern Orientalism is not a brainchild of nineteenth-century European imperialists and colonialists, but, as Urs App demonstrates, was born in the eighteenth century after a very long gestation period defined less by economic or political motives than by religious ideology. Based on sources from a dozen languages, many unavailable in English, The Birth of Orientalism presents a completely new picture of this protracted genesis, its underlying dynamics, and the Western discovery of Asian religions from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century. App documents the immense influence of Japan and China and describes how the Near Eastern cradle of civilization moved toward mother India. Moreover, he shows that some of India's purportedly oldest texts were products of eighteenth-century European authors. Though Western engagement with non-Abrahamic Asian religions reaches back to antiquity and can without exaggeration be called the largest-scale religiocultural encounter in history, it has so far received surprisingly little attention—which is why some of its major features and their role in the birth of modern Orientalism are described here for the first time. The study of Asian documents had a profound impact on Europe's intellectual makeup. Suddenly the Bible had much older competitors from China and India, Sanskrit threatened to replace Hebrew as the world's oldest language, and Judeo-Christianity appeared as a local phenomenon on a dramatically expanded, worldwide canvas of religions and mythologies. Orientalists were called upon as arbiters in a clash that involved neither gold and spices nor colonialism and imperialism but, rather, such fundamental questions as where we come from and who we are: questions of identity that demanded new answers as biblical authority dramatically waned.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812200055

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Human Blood Plasma Proteins

Structure and Function

By: Johann Schaller,Simon Gerber,Urs Kaempfer,Sofia Lejon,Christian Trachsel

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Human Blood Plasma Proteins

Structure and Function

By: Johann Schaller,Simon Gerber,Urs Kaempfer,Sofia Lejon,Christian Trachsel

Human Blood Plasma Proteins gives an overview of the proteins found in human blood plasma, with special emphasis on their structure and function and relationship to pathological states and disease. Topics covered include: introduction to blood components and blood plasma proteins blood plasma protein domains, motifs and repeats blood plasma protein families and posttranslational modifications blood coagulation and fibrinolysis the complement system the immune system enzymes inhibitors lipoproteins hormones cytokines and growth factors transport and storage The information of each protein discussed in this book in some detail is summarised at the end of each chapter in a Data Sheet, where one can find the most important data of each protein at one glance. Full cross-referencing to protein databases is given and many of the proteins discussed are accompanied by their 3D structure. Attractively presented in full colour, Human Blood Plasma Proteins is an essential atlas of this proteome for anyone working in biochemistry, protein chemistry and proteomics, structural biology, and medicine.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0470724366

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9780470724361

The Cult of Emptiness

The Western Discovery of Buddhist Thought and the Invention of Oriental Philosophy

By: Urs App

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The Cult of Emptiness

The Western Discovery of Buddhist Thought and the Invention of Oriental Philosophy

By: Urs App

Pt. I Sixteenth century : Translation hazards -- The zen shock -- The Buddha's progress -- Chaos and the God of Zen -- Valignano's lectures and Catechism -- Buddhist philosophy -- God's Samadhi -- Pt. II Seventeenth century : Oriental Ur-philosophy (Rodriques) -- Pan-Asian religion (Kircher) -- Buddha's deathbed confession -- The common ground (Navarrete) -- Pan-Asian philosophy (Bernier) -- The merger (Le Clerc & Bernier) -- From Pagan to Oriental philosophy -- Philosophical archaeology (Burnet) -- Zoroaster's lie (Jacob Thomasius) -- Ur-Spinozism (Bayle).

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306

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UniversityMedia

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3906000095

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9783906000091

China and Japan in the Late Meiji Period

China Policy and the Japanese Discourse on National Identity, 1895-1904

By: Urs Matthias Zachmann

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China and Japan in the Late Meiji Period

China Policy and the Japanese Discourse on National Identity, 1895-1904

By: Urs Matthias Zachmann

Demonstrates the close relation between Japan’s changing international status and the thought process behind this by focusing on the public discussion on China and China politics during the interwar years 1895-1904. Winner of the JaDe Prize 2010 awarded by the German Foundation for the Promotion of Japanese-German Culture and Science Relations

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Routledge

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1134017197

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The Birth of Orientalism

By: Urs App

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The Birth of Orientalism

The Birth of Orientalism

Human Blood Plasma Proteins

Human Blood Plasma Proteins

The Cult of Emptiness

The Cult of Emptiness

China and Japan in the Late Meiji Period

China and Japan in the Late Meiji Period

The Birth of Orientalism

The Birth of Orientalism

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