ISBN:
0631222278
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063122226X
,
047075351X
,
9780631222262
,
9780470753514
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xxiii, 305 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. Palo Alto, Calif ebrary 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Philosophers on race
DDC:
305.8
Keywords:
Physical anthropology
;
Race
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
This volume adds a new dimension to current research on race theory by examining its historical roots in the works of major Western philosophers. The essays included in this book span a wide range of topics, including the opposition between Greek and "barbarian" in the works of Plato and Aristotle, the notion of racial difference employed in medieval Islamic thought, as well as the existence of racial categories within the social contract and Enlightenment theories of Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Kant. The readings also discuss repercussions in the post-Enlightenment period in the views of Nietzsche, Mill, and Carlyle, and twentieth-century reflections on race in the thought of Heidegger, Dewey, Sartre, and Beauvoir
Abstract:
This volume adds a new dimension to current research on race theory by examining its historical roots in the works of major Western philosophers. The essays included in this book span a wide range of topics, including the opposition between Greek and "barbarian" in the works of Plato and Aristotle, the notion of racial difference employed in medieval Islamic thought, as well as the existence of racial categories within the social contract and Enlightenment theories of Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Kant. The readings also discuss repercussions in the post-Enlightenment period in the views of Nietzsche, Mill, and Carlyle, and twentieth-century reflections on race in the thought of Heidegger, Dewey, Sartre, and Beauvoir
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Distinction without a difference? Race and Genos in Plato
,
Ethnos in the Politics : Aristotle and race
,
Medieval Muslim philosophers on race
,
Patriarchy and slavery in Hobbes's political philosophy
,
"Aninconsistency not to be excused" : on Locke and racism
,
Locke and the dispossession of the American Indian
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Between primates and primitives : natural man as the missing link in Rousseau's Second discourse
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Kant as an unfamiliar source of racism
,
"Thegreat play and fight of forces" : Nietzsche on race
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Liberalism's limits : Carlyle and Mill on "The negro question"
,
Heidegger and the Jewish question : metaphysical racism in silence and word
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Sartre on American racism
,
Sartrean bad faith and antiblack racism
,
Beauvoir and the problem of racism
,
Dewey's philosophical approach to racial prejudice
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
DOI:
10.1002/9780470753514
URL:
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