Nature, human nature, and human difference : race in early modern philosophy /
People have always been xenophobic, but an explicit philosophical and scientific view of human racial difference only began to emerge during the modern period. Why and how did this happen? Surveying a range of philosophical and natural-scientific texts, dating from the Spanish Renaissance to the Ger...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press
2017.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1dr363q |
| Summary: | People have always been xenophobic, but an explicit philosophical and scientific view of human racial difference only began to emerge during the modern period. Why and how did this happen? Surveying a range of philosophical and natural-scientific texts, dating from the Spanish Renaissance to the German Enlightenment, this work charts the evolution of the modern concept of race and shows that natural philosophy, particularly efforts to taxonomize and to order nature, played a crucial role. |
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| Item Description: | Previously issued in print: 2015. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white) |
| Audience: | Specialized. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781400866311 1400866316 9780691176345 0691176345 9780691153643 |