Race and the Enlightenment: a reader

by Eze, Emmanuel Chukwudi

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Title Statements

Full title :Race and the Enlightenment : a reader / edited by Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2001, ©1997.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Blackwell
Place of Publication:Cambridge, Mass
Language:eng
Publication Date:2001, ©1997.

The Physical Object

Description:ix, 166 pages ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0631201378, 9780631201373, 063120136X, 9780631201366
oclc:on1080785316
LC Classification:HT1507
Dewey Decimal:305.8/009/033

The God-given order of nature / Carl von Linné, Hpmo in The system of nature -- The geographical and cultural distribution of mankind / Georges-Louis Leclerc, A natural history, general and particular -- "Negroes ... naturally inferior to the whites" / David Hume, "of the populousness of ancient nations", "of national characters" ; A response to Hume / James Beattie -- "This fellow was quite black ... a clear proof that what he said was stupid" / Immanuel Kant, "on the different races of man", "on national characteristics", from Physical geography -- The Kant-Herder controversy, Immanuel Kant, Review of Herder's Ideas on the philosophy of the history of mankind ; "Organization of the peoples of Africa" / Johann Gottfied Herder -- The degeneration of races / Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, "Degeneration of the species" -- Entries in the Encyclopédie and the Encyclopaedia Britannica : "Négre," from the Encyclopédie, "Negro," from Encyclopaedia Britannica -- "The difference is fixed in nature" Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia -- "The race from which we are descended has been called Caucasian ... the handsomest on earth" / Georges Léopold Cuvier, "varieties of the human s…

Subjects

Enlightenment Enlightenment (18th-century western mov… History Racism Racism -- History -- 18th century Racisme -- Histoire -- 18e siècle Siècle des Lumières