Philosophers on Race: Critical Essays

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Pub. Date: 2008-04-01
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary

Philosophers on Race adds a new dimension to current research on race theory by examining the historical roots of the concept in the works of major Western philosophers.

Table of Contents

Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Distinction Without a Difference? Race and Genos in Plato
Ethnos in the Politics: Aristole and Race
Medieval Muslim Philosophers on Race
Patriarchy and Slavery in HobbesÆs Political Philosophy
"An Inconsistency not to be Excused": On Locke and Racism
Locke and the Dispossession of the American Indian
Between Primates and Primitives: Natural Man as the Missing Link in RousseauÆs Second Discourse
Kant as an Unfamiliar Source of Racism
"The Great Play and Fight of Forces": Nietzsche on Race
LiberalismÆs Limits: Carlyle and Mill on "The Negro Question"
Heidegger and the Jewish Question: Metaphysical Racism in Silence and Word
Sartre on American Racism
Sartrean Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism
Beavoir and the Problem of Racism
DeweyÆs Philosophical Approach to Racial Prejudice
Index
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