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...
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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
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN:
9780691153643 (0691153647)
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Pages no: 312
Edition language: English