ISBN:
9781400866311
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
,
Illustrations (black and white)
DDC:
305.8001
Keywords:
Race Philosophy
;
Ethnicity Philosophy
;
Philosophy of nature
;
Science Philosophy
;
Evolution (Biology)
Abstract:
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, this work 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.
Note:
Previously issued in print: 2015
,
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.23943/princeton/9780691153643.001.0001
URL:
https://doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691153643.001.0001