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The color of equality : race and common humanity in Enlightenment thought /
Enlightenment thinkers bequeathed a paradoxical legacy to the modern world: they expanded the purview of equality while simultaneously inventing the modern concept of race. The Color of Equality makes sense of this tension by demonstrating that the same Enlightenment impulse--the naturalization of h...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2021]
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| Colección: | Intellectual history of the modern age.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Enlightenment thinkers bequeathed a paradoxical legacy to the modern world: they expanded the purview of equality while simultaneously inventing the modern concept of race. The Color of Equality makes sense of this tension by demonstrating that the same Enlightenment impulse--the naturalization of humanity--underlay both of these trends. As our understanding of the Enlightenment has become more capacious, it makes it difficult to disentangle the messy history of Enlightenment, equality, and racial classification. This book aims to make sense of this complicated history by searching for the ways in which equality and race, human sameness and difference, may have been linked in Enlightenment thought. How was the tension between these ideas dealt with and possibly resolved? And what do transformations in thinking about equality and race tell us about the Enlightenment as an intellectual movement? To address these questions, Vartija has chosen three influential Enlightenment encyclopedias as his main corpus of primary sources: Ephraim Chambers's Cyclopaedia (London, 1728), Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert's Encyclopédie (Paris, 1751-1765), and Fortunato Bartolomeo De Felice's Encyclopédie d'Yverdon (Yverdon, 1770-1775) -- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (287 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780812299670 0812299671 |