Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference

Race in Early Modern Philosophy

Justin E. H. Smith

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Princeton University Pres
23 May 2017

Philosophy; Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900; Philosophy: metaphysics & ontology; Ethnic studies

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

By: Justin E. H. Smith
Imprint: Princeton University Pres
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 482g
ISBN: 9780691176345
ISBN 10: 0691176345
Pages: 312
Publication Date: 23 May 2017
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

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.

Reviews for Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference: Race in Early Modern Philosophy

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