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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Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Intellectual History of the Modern Age
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (312 p.) :; 1 table |
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Table of Contents:
- 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