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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书目详细资料
主要作者: Smith, Justin E. H. (Author)
格式: Licensed eBooks
语言:英语
出版: Princeton : Princeton University Press 2017.
在线阅读:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1dr363q
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总结: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.
Item Description:Previously issued in print: 2015.
实物描述:1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
读者:Specialized.
参考书目:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781400866311
1400866316
9780691176345
0691176345
9780691153643