文档介绍：The
German
nvention Race
of
edited by Sara Eigen and Mark Larrimore
The German
Invention of Race
SUNY series, Philosophy and Race
Robert Bernasconi and T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, editors
The German
Invention of Race
Sara Eigen and Mark Larrimore, editors
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
The German invention of race / edited by Sara Eigen and Mark Larrimore.
p. cm. —(SUNY series, philosophy and race)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-7914-6677-9 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1. Race—Philosophy. 2. Philosophy, German—History. I. Larrimore,
Mark J. (Mark Joseph), 1966–. III. Eigen, Sara. III. Series.
2006
'001—dc22 2005021342
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Contents
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: The German Invention of Race 1
Sara Eigen and Mark Larrimore
I. Modes of Difference: Race, Color, Culture
1 What “Progresses” Has Race-Theory Made 11
Since the Times of Leibniz and Wolff?
Peter Fenves
2 Laocoön and the Hottentots 23
Michel Chaouli
II. Race in Philosophy: the Problem of Kant
3 Policing icism in Germany, 1775: 35
(Kames,) Kant, and Blumenbach
John H. Zammito
4 Kant’s Concept of a Human Race 55
Susan M. Shell
5 Kant and Blumenbach’s Polyps: A Neglect