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Kant and the Concept of Race: Late Eighteenth-Century Writings

Book information

Publisher
State University of New York Press
Year
2013
ISBN
1438443617, 978-1-4384-4361-4, 9781438443638, 1438443633, 9781461943129, 1461943124
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4703110 bytes)
Series
Philosophy and Race
Pages
377\389
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00

Description

Kant and the Concept of Race features translations of four texts by Immanuel Kant frequently designated his Racenschriften (race essays), in which he develops and defends an early theory of race. Also included are translations of essays by four of Kant’s contemporaries—E. A. W. Zimmermann, Georg Forster, Christoph Meiners, and Christoph Girtanner—which illustrate that Kant’s interest in the subject of race was part of a larger discussion about human “differences,” one that impacted the development of scientific fields ranging from natural history to physical anthropology to biology.

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