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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Princeton Univ Pr
Publication date
June 30, 2015
Pages
296
Binding
Hardcover
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780691153643
ISBN-10
0691153647
Dimensions
1 by 6.50 by 9.75 in.
Weight
1.28 lbs.
Original list price
$39.95
Other format details
university press
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Black Rights/White Wrongs: The Critique of Racial Liberalism (Transgressing Boundaries: Studies in Black Politics and Black Communities) | Philosophy and Its History | The Philosopher | Anthropology, History, and Education | Africa, Asia, and the History of Philosophy | Biographies of Scientific Objects | Blackness Visible
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: 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.
Editions
Hardcover
The price comparison is for this edition
from Princeton Univ Pr (June 30, 2015); titled "Nature, Human Nature, & Human Difference: Race in Early Modern Philosophy"
9780691153643 | details & prices | 296 pages | 6.50 × 9.75 × 1.00 in. | 1.28 lbs | List price $39.95
About: People have always been xenophobic, but an explicit philosophical and scientific view of human racial difference only began to emerge during the modern period.
About: People have always been xenophobic, but an explicit philosophical and scientific view of human racial difference only began to emerge during the modern period.
Paperback
With Hilda Simon |
from Dodd Mead (November 1, 1979); titled "Easy Identification Guide to North American Snakes"
9780396077718 | details & prices | List price $10.95
This edition also contains Easy Identification Guide to North American Snakes
About: Distribution maps and illustrations showing the snakes no less than one-third of their actual sizes accompany descriptions of the identifying characteristics of all United States species
This edition also contains Easy Identification Guide to North American Snakes
About: Distribution maps and illustrations showing the snakes no less than one-third of their actual sizes accompany descriptions of the identifying characteristics of all United States species
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