Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference : Race in Early Modern Philosophy /

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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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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Smith, Justin E. H. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2015]
Edición:Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
Temas:
Ethnicity > Philosophy.
Evolution (Biology).
Philosophy of nature.
Race > Philosophy.
Science > Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General.
Anton Wilhelm Amo.
European philosophy.
Franois Bernier.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz.
Ibero-American world.
Johann Friedrich Blumenbach.
Johann Gottfried Herder.
New World peoples.
New World.
Renaissance.
apes.
biogeography.
biological classification.
biology.
casuistical approach.
categorial schemes.
cognitivist approach.
cultural anthropology.
cultural difference.
degeneration.
degenerationism.
diffusionist models.
early modern universalism.
eighteenth-century Germany.
enslavement.
higher primates.
human difference.
human diversity.
human domination.
human equality.
human groups.
human migration.
human origins.
human physical appearance.
human racial diversity.
human reason.
human species.
human variety.
humanity.
lineage.
modern paleoanthropology.
modern period.
modern philosophy.
modern race concept.
modern racial classification.
modern racial thinking.
modern racism.
moral equality.
multiplicity.
natural sciences.
nonracial philosophical anthropology.
novissima americana.
polygenesis.
pre-Adamism.
race concept.
race.
racial categories.
racial difference.
racial theory.
racial thinking.
racial typing.
racism.
social constructionism.
social sciences.
taxonomic distinctions.
textual sources.
trans-Atlantic slavery.
transhistorical sense.
xenophobia.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • A Note on Citations and Terminology
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1: Curious Kinks
  • Chapter 2: Toward a Historical Ontology of Race
  • Chapter 3: New Worlds
  • Chapter 4: The Specter of Polygenesis
  • Chapter 5: Diversity as Degeneration
  • Chapter 6: From Lineage to Biogeography
  • Chapter 7: L eibniz on Human Equality and Human Domination
  • Chapter 8: Anton Wilhelm Amo
  • Chapter 9: Race and Its Discontents in the Enlightenment
  • Conclusion
  • Biographical Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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