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 t...

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Main Author: Smith, Justin E. H.,
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2015]
Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 296 pages) : illustrations.
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245 1 0 |a Nature, human nature, and human difference :  |b race in early modern philosophy /  |c Justin E.H. Smith. 
264 1 |a Princeton, N.J. :  |b Princeton University Press,  |c [2015] 
264 4 |c ©2015. 
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505 0 |a 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. 
520 |a "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" --  |c Provided by publisher. 
545 |a 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. 
588 0 |a Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed September 10 2015). 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-292) and index. 
546 |a In English. 
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