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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Smith, Justin E. H. (Auteur)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Langue:anglais
Publié: Princeton : Princeton University Press 2017.
Accès en ligne:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt1dr363q
Table des matières:
  • Curious kinks
  • Toward a historical ontology of race
  • New worlds
  • The specter of polygenesis
  • Diversity as degeneration
  • From lineage to biogeography
  • Leibniz on human equality and human domination
  • Anton Wilhelm Amo
  • Race and its discontents in the Enlightenment.