Leibniz and the European Encounter with China: 300 Years of Discours sur la théologie naturelle des Chinois

W. Leibniz' writings on China, particularly his Discours sur la théologie naturelle des Chinois (1715/1716), count among the most important works of this global thinker. There have been a growing number of editions and translations of the texts – from Chinese to Portuguese. The present volume contains papers of the scholarly conference that took place in 2015 on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of Leibniz' writing the Discours . The editor and associates, in the spirit of the conference, have collected and presented the individual contributions with the hope of initiating research in a field that still awaits further exploration. INHALTSVERZEICHNIS EINFÜHRUNG LEIBNIZ’ DISCOURS SUR LA THÉOLOGIE NATURELLE DES CHINOIS - ENTSTEHUNG, EDITIONEN UND ÜBERSETZUNGEN BEMERKUNGEN ZU LONGOBARDIS TRAITÉ SUR QUELQUES POINTS DE LA RELIGION DES CHINOIS, ANTOINE DE SAINTE MARIES TRAITÉ SUR QUELQUES POINTS IMPORTANS DE LA MISSION DE LA CHINE UND MALEBRANCHES ENTRETIEN D’UN PHILOSOPHE CHRÉTIEN ET D’UN PHILOSOPHE CHINOIS THE OPPOSING VIEWS OF NICCOLÒ LONGOBARDO AND JOACHIM BOUVET ON CHINESE RELIGIONS TRANSLATING THE SAINT: JOSEPH DE PRÉMARE’S FIGURIST TORQUE OF CHINESE FROM DECEM TO CRUCEM MIT ARISTOTELES DIE SISHU LESEN: DAS SINOLOGISCHE WERK VON FRANÇOIS NOËL SJ WESTERN BOOKS FOR CHINA LEIBNIZ AND THE QUESTION OF CHINESE SPINOZISM LEIBNIZ AS PROPONENT OF NEO-CONFUCIANISM IN EUROPE LEIBNIZ AND THE POLITICAL THEOLOGY OF THE CHINESE WHAT IS EXACTLY A ‘CIVIL CULT’? DER AUFBAU DER CHINA-REDE VON CHRISTIAN WOLFF UND DIE STRUKTUR DER KONFUZIANISCHEN KANONBÜCHER LEIBNIZʼS ‘REFORMATION’ OF CHINESE THOUGHT: DISCOURSE ON THE NATURAL THEOLOGY OF THE CHINESE LEIBNIZ UND DIE NATÜRLICHE THEOLOGIE DER CHINESEN AUTORENVERZEICHNIS NAMENVERZEICHNIS W. Leibniz' writings on China, particularly his 'Discours sur la théologie naturelle des Chinois' (1715/1716), count among the most important works of this global thinker. There have been a growing number of editions and translations of the texts? from Chinese to Portuguese.0The present volume contains papers of the scholarly conference that took place in 2015 on the occasion of the 300th anniversary of Leibniz' writing the Discours. The editor and associates, in the spirit of the conference, have collected and presented the individual contributions with the hope of initiating research in a field that still awaits further exploration