Race and the Enlightenment: A Reader

ISBN: 978-0-631-20136-6

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February 1997, Wiley-Blackwell

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Acknowledgements.

Introduction.

1. Carl von Linne: "Hommo" in the System of Nature.

2. Georges-Louis Leclerc Buffon: Biological and Geographical Distribution of Mankind.

3. David Hume: Negroes... naturally inferior to the whites. James Beattie: Response to David Hume.

4. Immanuel Kant: On the Different Races of Man. Immanuel Kant: Of National Characteristics. Immanuel Kant: Physical Geography.

5. The Kant-Herder Controversy. Kant: Review of Herder's Ideas on the Philosophy of the History of Mankind. Johann Gottfried Herder: Organization of the People of Africa.

6. Johann Friedrich Blumenbach: The Degeneration of Races.

7. Entries on: 'Negre' in the Encyclopedia, and 'Negro' in the Encyclopedia Britannica.

8. Thomas Jefferson: The difference is fixed in nature.

9. Georges Leopold Cuvier, Varieties of the Human Species.

10. Georg Wilhelm Hegel, Africa is enveloped in the Dark Mantle of Night. Georg Wilhelm Hegel, On Colonialism.

Index.