TY  - GEN
T1  - Nature, human nature, and human difference : race in early modern philosophy
A1  - Smith, Justin E. H.
LA  - English
PP  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
YR  - 2017
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1034230856
AB  - 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.
NO  - Previously issued in print: 2015.
CN  - GN269 .S65 2017
SN  - 9781400866311
SN  - 1400866316
SN  - 9780691176345
SN  - 0691176345
SN  - 9780691153643
KW  - Race : Philosophy.
KW  - Ethnicity : Philosophy.
KW  - Philosophy of nature.
KW  - Science : Philosophy.
KW  - Evolution (Biology)
KW  - Race : Philosophie.
KW  - Ethnicité : Philosophie.
KW  - Philosophie de la nature.
ER  -