Overview

Concepts of Race in the Eighteenth Century is a collection of rare primary source materials tracing the development of a scientific concept of race in the 18th century. With contributions from some of the most eminent scientists of the 18th century, this set is a reassessment of the historical discussion of the concept of race. Over time, various misconceptions around the concept of race have developed including ideas about race purity , the effects of racial hybridization, superior and inferior races , race and mental differences, race and culture. This set examines the different viewpoints of influential 18th-century philosophical and scientific figures. The opening two volumes offer contributions by Carolus Linnaeus (or Carl Linne, 1707-78), Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis (1698-1959) and Count de Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc (1707-88). Their vagueness about the concept of race serves to highlight the critical importance of Immanuel Kant's definition of race in his essay Von den vershiedenen Racen der Menschen . Both the 1775 and 1777 versions of this essay are included, as well as his two subsequent essays on race. An essay by Christoph Girtanner (1760-1800) is also included, a work which Kant himself recommended to scholars as an accurate reflection of his mature views on the subject. Contrary to the belief that Johann Blumenbach (1752-1840) was the founder of a scientific concept of race, a comparison of the three editions of Blumenbach's De generis humani varietate nativa shows that he did not employ the concept of race until the third edition. Blumenbach was the first to divide the human race into five races: Caucasian, Ethiopian, American, Mongolian and Malay. With the reprinting of all four editions, a systematic study of the development of Blumenbach's thought is now possible. The English language discussion on the diversity of human types here by Samuel Stanhope Smith's (1750-1819) An Essay on the Causes of the Variety of Complexion and Figure in the Human Species and Charles White's (1728-1813) An Account of the Regular Gradation of Man .

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Author:   Robert Bernasconi ,  Robert Bernasconi
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Thoemmes Continuum
Edition:   Facsimile edition
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 14.50cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   4.763kg
ISBN:  

9781855068698

ISBN 10:   1855068699
Pages:   2688
Publication Date:   15 April 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Awaiting stock  

Table of Contents

Volume 1 [280pp] General Introduction by Robert Bernasconi [10pp] Introduction by Robert Bernasconi [3pp] [Francois Bernier] 'Nouvelle division de la Terre, par les differentes Especes ou Races d'hommes qu habitent, envoyee par un fameux Voyageur a Monsieur... a peu pres en ces termes' in Journal des Scavans, vol. 12 (Monday 14 April 1684) pp. 148-155 (8pp) Carolus Linnaeus, 'Anthropomorpha', Amaen. acad (1764) iii, pp. 131-145 (18pp) Venus Physique, (6th ed., 1751) Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis 246pp Volume 2 [292pp] Introduction by Robert Bernasconi [3pp] Count de Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc 'Varietes dans l'espece humaine' in Histoire Naturelle, vol. 3 (1749) pp. 371-530 [160pp] Count de Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc 'Addition a l'article des Varietes de l'espece humaine' in Histoire Naturelle, Supplement, vol. 4 (1777) pp. 454-583 [129pp] Volume 3 [173pp] Introduction by Robert Bernasconi [3pp] Von den verschiedenen Racen der Menschen zur Ankundigung der Vorlesungen der physischen Geographie im Sommerhalbenjahre (1775) Immanuel Kant c.12pp 'Von den verschiedenen Racen der Menchen in J.J. Engel, Der Philosoph fur die Welt, Part Two (1777) Immanuel Kant pp. 125-164 (39pp) Immanuel Kant, 'Bestimmung des Begriffs einer Menschenrace' in Berlinische Monatschrifte, vol. 6 (1785) pp. 390-417 [28pp] Georg Forster, 'Noch etwas uber die Menschenracen. An Herrn Dr. Biester' in Teutschen Merkur (4 Vierteljahr, October & November 1786) pp. 57-86pp and pp. 150-166 [46pp] Immanuel Kant 'Uber den Gebrauch teleologischer Principies in der Philosophie' in Teutschen Merkur, (1 Viertelijahr, 1788) 1, pp. 36-52 and 2, pp. 107-136 (45pp) Volume 4 [620pp] Introduction by Robert Bernasconi [3pp] De generis humani varietate nativa (1776) Johann Blumenbach 105pp (including 2 drawings) De generis humani varietate nativa, Edito altera, longe auctior et emendatior (2nd ed.,1781) Johann Blumenbach iii, 128pp + 2 plates (132pp) De generis humani varietate nativa, edito tertia, Praemissa est epistola ad virem perillustrem Iosephum Banks (1795) Johann Blumenbach xliv, 326,10pp+ 2 drawings (380pp) Volume 5 [327p] Introduction by Robert Bernasconi [3pp] Uber die naturlichen Verschiedenheiten im Menschengeschlechte. Nach der dritten Ausgabe und den

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