The Color of Equality : : Race and Common Humanity in Enlightenment Thought / / Devin J. Vartija.
The Enlightenment is often either praised as the wellspring of modern egalitarianism or condemned as the cradle of scientific racism. How should we make sense of this paradox? The Color of Equality is the first book to investigate both the inclusive language of common humanity and the hierarchical l...
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Vartija, Devin J., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Color of Equality : Race and Common Humanity in Enlightenment Thought / Devin J. Vartija. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2021] ©2021 1 online resource (312 p.) : 1 table text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Intellectual History of the Modern Age Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Early Modern Debates on Human Sameness and Difference -- Chapter 2. Chambers’s Cyclopaedia and Supplement: The Growth of the Natu ral History of Humanity -- Chapter 3. Diderot and d’Alembert’s Encyclopédie: A New Human Science -- Chapter 4. De Felice’s Encyclopédie d’Yverdon: Expanding and Contesting Human Science -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star The Enlightenment is often either praised as the wellspring of modern egalitarianism or condemned as the cradle of scientific racism. How should we make sense of this paradox? The Color of Equality is the first book to investigate both the inclusive language of common humanity and the hierarchical language of race in Enlightenment thought, seeking to understand how eighteenth-century thinkers themselves made sense of these tensions. Using three major Enlightenment encyclopedias from England, France, and Switzerland, the book provides a rich contextualization of the conflicting ideas of equality and race in eighteenth-century thought.Enlightenment thinkers used physical features to categorize humanity into novel "racial" groups in a discourse that was imbued with Eurocentric aesthetic and moral judgments. Simultaneously, however, these very same thinkers politicized equality by putting it to new uses, such as a vitriolic denunciation of slavery and inhumane treatment that was grounded in the nascent philosophy of human rights. Vartija contends that the tension between Enlightenment ideas of race and equality can best be explained by these thinkers' attempt to provide a naturalistic account of humanity, including both our physical and moral attributes. Enlightenment racial classification fits into the novel inclusion of humanity in histories of nature, while the search for the origins of morality in social experience alone lent equality a normative authority it had not previously possessed.Eschewing straightforward approbation or blame of the Enlightenment, The Color of Equality demonstrates that our present-day thinking about human physical and cultural diversity continues to be deeply informed by an eighteenth-century European intellectual revolution with global ramifications. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022) Enlightenment. Equality Philosophy History 18th century. Race Philosophy History 18th century. HISTORY / Modern / 18th Century. bisacsh American revolution. Chambers Cyclopaedia. Common humanity. De Felice Encyclopédie d'Yverdon. Diderot Encyclopédie. Equality. French revolution. History of Race. Human rights. Natural history. Scientific Racism. Slavery. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English 9783110754001 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 9783110753776 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2021 English 9783110754087 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2021 9783110753851 ZDB-23-DEG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Complete eBook-Package 2021 9783110739213 https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812299670 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780812299670 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780812299670/original |
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