Eigen / Larrimore The German Invention of Race

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-8207-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 229 Seiten

Reihe: SUNY series, Philosophy and Race

Illuminates the emergence of race as a central concept in philosophy and the social sciences.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eigen, Sara

Larrimore, Mark

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: The German Invention of Race
Sara Eigen and Mark Larrimore
I. Modes of Difference: Race, Color, Culture
1. What “Progresses” Has Race-Theory Made Since the Times of Leibniz and Wolff?
Peter Fenves
2. Laocoön and the Hottentots
Michel Chaouli
II. Race in Philosophy: the Problem of Kant
3. Policing Polygeneticism in Germany, 1775: (Kames,) Kant, and Blumenbach
John H. Zammito
4. Kant’s Concept of a Human Race
Susan M. Shell
5. Kant and Blumenbach’s Polyps: A Neglected Chapter in the History of the Concept of Race
Robert Bernasconi
6. Race, Freedom and the Fall in Steffens and Kant
Mark Larrimore
III. Race in the Sciences of Culture
7. The German Invention of Völkerkunde: Ethnological Discourse in Europe and Asia, 1740-1798
Han F. Vermeulen
8. Gods, Titans, and Monsters: Philhellenism, Race, and Religion in Early-Nineteenth-Century Mythography
George S. Williamson
9. From Indo-Germans to Aryans: Philology and the Racialization of Salvationist National Rhetoric, 1806-30
Tuska Benes
IV. Race in the Political Sphere
10. Policing the Menschen = Racen
Sara Eigen
11. Jewish Emancipation and the Politics of Race
Jonathan M. Hess
Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sara Eigen is Assistant Professor of German at Vanderbilt University. Mark Larrimore is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Philosophy at Eugene Lang College, The New School for Liberal Arts and the editor of The Problem of Evil: A Reader.