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Investigates the impact of theories of reproduction and heredity on the emerging concepts of race and gender at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth centuries.

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Author:   Susanne Lettow
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:   0.227kg
ISBN:  

9781438449487

ISBN 10:   1438449488
Pages:   300
Publication Date:   02 January 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction Susanne Lettow Part I. Reproduction and the Early Life Sciences 1. Generation, Genealogy, and Time: The Concept of Reproduction from Histoire naturelle to Naturphilosophie Susanne Lettow 2. Organic Molecules, Parasites, Urthiere: The Controversial Nature of Spermatic Animals, 1749-1841 Florence Vienne 3. The Scientific Construction of Gender and Generation in the German Late Enlightenment and in German Romantic Naturphilosophie Peter Hanns Reill 4. Zeugungl Fortpflanzung: Distinctions of Medium in the Discourse on Generation around 1800 Jocelyn Holland 5. Treviranus' Biology: Generation, Degeneration, and the Boundaries of Life Joan Steigerwald Part II. Articulations of Race and Gender 6. Skin Color and the Origin of Physical Anthropology (1640-1850) Renato G. Mazzolini 7. The Caucasian Slave Race: Beautiful Circassians and the Hybrid Origin of European Identity Sara Figal 8. Analogy of Analogy: Animals and Slaves in Mary Wollstonecraft's Defense of Women's Rights Penelope Deutscher 9. Reproducing Difference: Race and Heredity from a longue duree Perspective Staffan Muller-Wille 10. Heredity and Hybridity in the Natural History of Kant, Girtanner, and Schelling during the 1790s Robert Bernasconi 11. Sexual Polarity in Schelling and Hegel Alison Stone About the Contributors Index

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The editor declares that the co-emergence of concepts of race and gender in the period here examined was not just a question of simultaneity, noting that rarely have they been examined in relation to each other. This prompts us to expect that the contributions will focus on this interrelation. But not all of the contributions address this concern, remaining content to develop interesting new aspects of one or the other of these concepts in isolation from the other. For all that, we are indebted to the contributors for taking up the difficult challenge the subject presents. - Isis This collection contributes to an increasingly important issue in philosophy and the history of ideas, examining the emergence of the interrelated discourses of reproduction, 'race' and gender. - Radical Philosophy

This collection contributes to an increasingly important issue in philosophy and the history of ideas, examining the emergence of the interrelated discourses of reproduction, 'race' and gender. - Radical Philosophy

"""The editor declares that the co-emergence of concepts of race and gender in the period here examined was not just a question of simultaneity, noting that rarely have they been examined in relation to each other. This prompts us to expect that the contributions will focus on this interrelation. But not all of the contributions address this concern, remaining content to develop interesting new aspects of one or the other of these concepts in isolation from the other. For all that, we are indebted to the contributors for taking up the difficult challenge the subject presents."" - Isis ""This collection contributes to an increasingly important issue in philosophy and the history of ideas, examining the emergence of the interrelated discourses of reproduction, 'race' and gender."" - Radical Philosophy"

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Susanne Lettow teaches philosophy at the University of Paderborn, Germany.

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