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Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference : Race in Early Modern Philosophy, Justin E.H. Smith
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- Summary
- 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, Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference 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. Smith demonstrates how the denial of moral equality between Europeans and non-Europeans resulted from converging philosophical and scientific developments, including a declining belief in human nature's universality and the rise of biological classification. The racial typing of human beings grew from the need to understand humanity within an all-encompassing system of nature, alongside plants, minerals, primates, and other animals. While racial difference as seen through science did not arise in order to justify the enslavement of people, it became a rationalization and buttress for the practices of trans-Atlantic slavery. From the work of François Bernier to G.W. Leibniz, Immanuel Kant, and others, Smith delves into philosophy's part in the legacy and damages of modern racism. With a broad narrative stretching over two centuries, Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference takes a critical historical look at how the racial categories that we divide ourselves into came into being
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (312 pages)
- Contents
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- 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
- 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
- Isbn
- 9781400866311
- Label
- Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference : Race in Early Modern Philosophy
- Title
- Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference
- Title remainder
- Race in Early Modern Philosophy
- Statement of responsibility
- Justin E.H. Smith
- Subject
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- Ethnicity -- Philosophy
- Evolution (Biology)
- History of Philosophy
- Philosophy
- Philosophy of nature
- Philosophy, other
- Race -- Philosophy
- Electronic books
- Science -- Philosophy
- Science -- Philosophy
- Social Science -- Discrimination & Race Relations
- Social Science -- Minority Studies
- Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
- Race -- Philosophy
- Ethnicity -- Philosophy
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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, Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference 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. Smith demonstrates how the denial of moral equality between Europeans and non-Europeans resulted from converging philosophical and scientific developments, including a declining belief in human nature's universality and the rise of biological classification. The racial typing of human beings grew from the need to understand humanity within an all-encompassing system of nature, alongside plants, minerals, primates, and other animals. While racial difference as seen through science did not arise in order to justify the enslavement of people, it became a rationalization and buttress for the practices of trans-Atlantic slavery. From the work of François Bernier to G.W. Leibniz, Immanuel Kant, and others, Smith delves into philosophy's part in the legacy and damages of modern racism. With a broad narrative stretching over two centuries, Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference takes a critical historical look at how the racial categories that we divide ourselves into came into being
- Biographical or historical data
- SmithJustin E.H.: Justin E.H. Smith is university professor of the history and philosophy of science at the Université Paris Diderot--Paris VII. He is the author of Divine Machines: Leibniz and the Sciences of Life (Princeton), coeditor and cotranslator of The Leibniz-Stahl Controversy, and a regular contributor to the New York Times and other publications
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- Smith, Justin E. H
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- In English
- Literary form
- non fiction
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- bibliography
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- Ethnicity
- Race
- Science
- Social Science
- Social Science
- Ethnicity
- Race
- Science
- Evolution (Biology)
- History of Philosophy
- Philosophy of nature
- Philosophy, other
- Philosophy
- Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
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- Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference : Race in Early Modern Philosophy, Justin E.H. Smith
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- Contents
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- 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
- 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
- Control code
- ocn984682227
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (312 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781400866311
- Media category
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- JSTOR
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- 10.1515/9781400866311
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- illustrations
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- Label
- Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference : Race in Early Modern Philosophy, Justin E.H. Smith
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- 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
- 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
- Control code
- ocn984682227
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (312 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781400866311
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- Other control number
- 10.1515/9781400866311
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
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- 22573/ctt1dr2zbh
- d9c455e5-9196-4c06-a148-baff8747bfb9
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- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)984682227
Subject
- Ethnicity -- Philosophy
- Evolution (Biology)
- History of Philosophy
- Philosophy
- Philosophy of nature
- Philosophy, other
- Race -- Philosophy
- Electronic books
- Science -- Philosophy
- Science -- Philosophy
- Social Science -- Discrimination & Race Relations
- Social Science -- Minority Studies
- Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
- Race -- Philosophy
- Ethnicity -- Philosophy
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