Race and racism in modern philosophy

Valls, Andrew, 1966- (editor).

Summary: "Is modern philosophy racist? Do such canonical philosophers as Descartes, Hobbes, Leibniz, Spinoza, the British Empiricists, and the German Idealists lend support, if only indirectly, to racist doctrines? Or do their ideas contain the resources to critique or even reject racist theories? An innovative and substantial intervention in critical race theory, Race and Racism in Modern Philosophy brings together an impressive roster of thinkers to trace the question of race in modern philosophical inquiry and explore its influence on contemporary philosophy. From Locke's treatment of the issue of slavery and Descartes's silence on the issue to Hegel's philosophy of religion and Nietzsche's "racial profiling," this book illuminates the complex relationship between race and philosophy."--

Record details

ISBN: 0801472741 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN: 0801440335 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780801440335 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN: 9780801472749 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
vi, 293 p. ; 25 cm.
Publisher: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 2005.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction / Andrew Valls -- Descartes's silences on slavery and race / Timothy J. Reiss -- Race in Hobbes / Barbara Hall -- Metaphysics at the barricades : Spinoza and race / Debra Nails -- Imagining an inundation of Australians, or, Leibniz on the principles of grace and race / Peter Fenves -- The contradictions of racism : Locke, slavery, and the two treatises / Robert Bernasconi and Anika Maaza Mann -- Berkeley and the westward course of empire : on racism and ethnocentrism / William Uzgalis -- "A lousy empirical scientist" : rethinking Hume's racism / Andrew Valls -- Rousseau, natural man, and race / Bernard Boxill -- Kant's Untermenschen / Charles Mills -- Race and law in Hegel's philosophy of religion / Michael Hoffheimer -- John Stuart Mill and "the negro question" : race, colonialism, and the ladder of civilization / Anthony Bogues -- Marx, race, and the political problem of identity / Richard Peterson -- Nietzsche's racial profiling / James Winchester.