Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference: Race in Early Modern Philosophy - Paperback
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691176345ISBN-10:691176345UPC:9780691176345Book Category:Philosophy, History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:History & Surveys, Social History, DiscriminationSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.70 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SC778S90QQ
Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference: Race in Early Modern Philosophy
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 Difference charts the evolution of the modern...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691176345ISBN-10:691176345UPC:9780691176345Book Category:Philosophy, History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:History & Surveys, Social History, DiscriminationSize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.70 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SC778S90QQ
Justin E. H. Smith is university professor of the history and philosophy of science at the Universit? 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.
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