Mikkelsen Kant and the Concept of Race

Late Eighteenth-Century Writings
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4384-4363-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 387 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series, Philosophy and Race

Late eighteenth-century writings on race by Kant and four of his contemporaries.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mikkelsen, Jon M.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Translator’s Introduction: Recent Work on Kant’s Race Theory / The Texts / The Translations

1. Of the Different Human Races: An Announcement for Lectures in Physical Geography in the Summer Semester (1775)
Immanuel Kant

2. Of the Different Human Races (1777)
Immanuel Kant

3. From Geographical History of Human Beings and the Universally Dispersed Quadrupeds (1778)
E. A. W. Zimmermann

4. Determination of the Concept of a Human Race (1785)
Immanuel Kant

5. Something More About the Human Races (1786)
Georg Forster

6. On the Use of Teleological Principles in Philosophy (1788)
Immanuel Kant

7. Of the Varieties and Deviate Forms of Negroes (1790)
Christoph Meiners

8. From Concerning the Kantian Priciple in Natural History: An Attempt to Treat this Science Philosophy (1796)
Christoph Girtanner

Appendix: Chronology
Notes
Selected Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Jon M. Mikkelsen is Professor of Philosophy at Missouri Western State University.