The German invention of race [[electronic resource] /] / Sara Eigen and Mark Larrimore, editors

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910451979903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Albany, : State University of New York Press, c2006
• ISBN: 0-7914-8207-3; 1-4237-6620-2
• Descrizione fisica: vii, 221 p. : ill
• Collana: SUNY series, philosophy and race
• Altri autori (Persone): FigalSara Eigen <1965->; LarrimoreMark J <1966-> (Mark Joseph)
• Disciplina: 305.8/001
• Soggetti: Race - Philosophy; Philosophy, German - History; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The German invention of race / Sara Eigen and Mark Larrimore -- What "progresses" has race theory made since the times of Leibniz and Wolff? / Peter Fenves -- Laocoön and the Hottentots / Michael Chaouli -- Policing polygeneticism in Germany, 1775: (Kames,) Kant, and Blumenbach / John H. Zammito -- Kant's concept of a human race / Susan M. Shell -- Kant and Blumenbach's polyps: a neglected chapter in the history of the concept of race / Robert Bernasconi -- Race, freedom, and the fall in Steffens and Kant / Mark Larrimore -- The German invention of Völkerkunde: ethnological discourse in Europe and Asia, 1740-1798 / Han F. Vermeulen -- Gods, Titans, and monsters: philhellenism, race, and religion in early nineteenth century mythography / George S. Williamson -- From Indo-Germans to Aryans: philology and the racialization of salvationist national rhetoric, 1806-1830 / Tuska Benes -- Policing the Menschen = Racen / Sara Eigen -- Jewish emancipation and the politics of race / Jonathan M. Hess.