Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference: Race in Early Modern Philosophy
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference: Race in Early Modern Philosophy
By (Author) Justin E. H. Smith
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
23rd May 2017
United States
Classifications
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Philosophical traditions and schools of thought
Ethnic studies
128
Physical Properties
Paperback
312
Width 152mm, Height 235mm
482g
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
Reviews
"In this innovative, thought-provoking book, Smith (history and philosophy of science, Universite Paris Diderot, Paris 7) looks at the construction and evolution, in natural science and anthropology, of 17th- and 18th-century modern views of racial difference--views that led to racial typing, racial profiling, prejudice, and implicit bias... This is a valuable book for those interested in philosophy, sociology, cultural studies and multiculturalism, the history of race, and the history of natural science and anthropology."--Choice
Author Bio
Justin E. H. Smith is university professor of the history and philosophy of science at the Universite Paris Diderot--Paris VII. He is the author of Divine Machines: Leibniz and the Sciences of Life (Princeton), coeditor and cotranslator of The Leibniz-Stahl Controversy, and a regular contributor to the New York Times and other publications.
