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Author:   Jon M. Mikkelsen
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.703kg
ISBN:  

9781438443614

ISBN 10:   1438443617
Pages:   387
Publication Date:   01 August 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Translator's Introduction: Recent Work on Kant's Race Theory / The Texts / The Translations 1. Of the Different Human Races: An Announcement for Lectures in Physical Geography in the Summer Semester (1775) Immanuel Kant 2. Of the Different Human Races (1777) Immanuel Kant 3. From Geographical History of Human Beings and the Universally Dispersed Quadrupeds (1778) E. A. W. Zimmermann 4. Determination of the Concept of a Human Race (1785) Immanuel Kant 5. Something More About the Human Races (1786) Georg Forster 6. On the Use of Teleological Principles in Philosophy (1788) Immanuel Kant 7. Of the Varieties and Deviate Forms of Negroes (1790) Christoph Meiners 8. From Concerning the Kantian Priciple in Natural History: An Attempt to Treat this Science Philosophy (1796) Christoph Girtanner Appendix: Chronology Notes Selected Bibliography

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...Jon Mikkelsen does an excellent job with this material ... He teases out the idea that race, while a modern concept, was being worked out even in the 1770s, and that it was an ever-fluid ideal. - Portland Book Review This is a very important contribution for those who cannot read German and who wish to gain a purchase on the role of Kant in the highly contested domain of race theory and the less politicized but also contested domain of philosophy of biology ... For Kant specialists and even more for a general philosophical readership interested in questions of race and cosmopolitanism, Mikkelsen's volume is a very welcome contribution. - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

This is a very important contribution for those who cannot read German and who wish to gain a purchase on the role of Kant in the highly contested domain of race theory and the less politicized but also contested domain of philosophy of biology ... For Kant specialists and even more for a general philosophical readership interested in questions of race and cosmopolitanism, Mikkelsen's volume is a very welcome contribution. - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

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Jon M. Mikkelsen is Professor of Philosophy at Missouri Western State University.

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