Nature, Human Nature, and Human Difference by Smith, Justin E.H. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents Acknowledgments A Note on Citations and Terminology Introduction

I.1 Nature I.2 Historical Ontology I.3 The History of Science and the History of Philosophy I.4 Aims and Outline

Chapter 1: Curious Kinks

1.1 Essence 1.2 Race and Cognition 1.3 Race without a Theory of Essences; or, Liberal Racism 1.4 Constructionism and Eliminativism 1.5 Natural Construction 1.6 Conclusion

Chapter 2: Toward a Historical Ontology of Race

2.1 False Positives in the History of Race 2.2 “Erst Spruce, Now Rusty and Squalid” 2.3 Race and Dualism 2.4 Conclusion

Chapter 3: New Worlds

3.1 “I Had to Laugh Vehemently at Aristotle’s Meteorological Philosophy” 3.2 America and the Limits of Philosophy 3.3 Native Knowledge 3.4 Conclusion

Chapter 4: The Specter of Polygenesis

4.1 Libertinism and Naturalism from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century 4.2 Pre-Adamism 4.3 Diffusionist Models 4.4 Conclusion

Chapter 5: Diversity as Degeneration

5.1 The “History of Abused Nature” 5.2 Diet and Custom 5.3 Hybridism and the Threat of Ape-Human Kinship 5.4 Conclusion

Chapter 6: From Lineage to Biogeography

6.1 Race, Species, Breed 6.2 François Bernier’s Racial Geography 6.3 A Gassendian Natural Philosopher in the Court of the Grand Moghul 6.4 Bernier and Leibniz 6.5 Conclusion

Chapter 7: Leibniz on Human Equality and Human Domination

7.1 Introduction 7.2 Chains: Leibniz on the Series Generationum 7.3 Chains, Continued: Leibniz on Slavery 7.4 The Science of Singular Things 7.5 Mapping the Diversity of the Russian Empire 7.6 Conclusion: Diversity without Race

Chapter 8: Anton Wilhelm Amo

8.1 “The Natural Genius of Africa” 8.2 Amo’s Legacy 8.3 The Impassivity of the Human Mind 8.4 Conclusion: From Philippi to Kant

Chapter 9: Race and Its Discontents in the Enlightenment

9.1 Introduction 9.2 The Significance of Skin Color 9.3 Kant: From Non Sequitur to Critique? 9.4 J. G. Herder: The Expectation of Brotherhood 9.5 J. F. Blumenbach: Variety without Plurality

Conclusion Biographical Notes Bibliography Index