The Missionary as Medium: China and the Origins of Enlightenment Tolerance

The paper focuses on the early modern imagination of China in Europe and its contribution to the Early Enlightenment. It sets out by recalling the precarious condition of the Early Modern missionary understood as a complex medium of intercultural exchange. In the second step, the article engages wit...

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Published in:Review of Culture
Main Author: Mario Wenning
Format: Articles
Published: Instituto Cultural de Macau 2020
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Online Access:https://www.icm.gov.mo/rc/viewer/pdfViewerParts/40064/4015
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description The paper focuses on the early modern imagination of China in Europe and its contribution to the Early Enlightenment. It sets out by recalling the precarious condition of the Early Modern missionary understood as a complex medium of intercultural exchange. In the second step, the article engages with the Jesuit mission from a media philosophical perspective and investigates the specific form of subjectivity it fostered to then focus on the intracatholic quarrels and the central figure of the missionary Domingo Navarrete who contributed to a mission-critical Enlightenment discourse that culminated in a politics of tolerance and the rise of European secularism.
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The paper focuses on the early modern imagination of China in Europe and its contribution to the Early Enlightenment. It sets out by recalling the precarious condition of the Early Modern missionary understood as a complex medium of intercultural exchange. In the second step, the article engages with the Jesuit mission from a media philosophical perspective and investigates the specific form of subjectivity it fostered to then focus on the intracatholic quarrels and the central figure of the missionary Domingo Navarrete who contributed to a mission-critical Enlightenment discourse that culminated in a politics of tolerance and the rise of European secularism.
Instituto Cultural de Macau
Macau
Review of Culture
Articles
2020
China Mission
European Enlightenment
Medium
Navarrete
Tolerance.
Mario Wenning
spellingShingle The Missionary as Medium: China and the Origins of Enlightenment Tolerance
Mario Wenning
China Mission
European Enlightenment
Medium
Navarrete
Tolerance.
title The Missionary as Medium: China and the Origins of Enlightenment Tolerance
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title_short The Missionary as Medium: China and the Origins of Enlightenment Tolerance
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topic China Mission
European Enlightenment
Medium
Navarrete
Tolerance.
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European Enlightenment
Medium
Navarrete
Tolerance.
topic_facet China Mission
European Enlightenment
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