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Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference: Race in Early Modern Philosophy
Justin E. H. Smith
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Paperback. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 18. Weight in Grams: 485.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
312
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
485g
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691176345
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V9780691176345
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About Justin E. H. Smith
Justin E. H. Smith is university professor of the history and philosophy of science at the Universite 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.
Reviews for Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference: Race in Early Modern Philosophy
"In this innovative, thought-provoking book, Smith (history and philosophy of science, Universite Paris Diderot, Paris 7) looks at the construction and evolution, in natural science and anthropology, of 17th- and 18th-century modern views of racial difference
views that led to racial typing, racial profiling, prejudice, and implicit bias... This is a valuable book for those interested in philosophy, sociology, cultural studies ... Read more
views that led to racial typing, racial profiling, prejudice, and implicit bias... This is a valuable book for those interested in philosophy, sociology, cultural studies ... Read more