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Informationen zum Autor Julie K. Ward is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University, Chicago. She has published papers both in ancient philosophy and in feminism, and edited the anthology Feminism and Ancient Philosophy (1996), to which she contributed a chapter on Aristotle's theory of friendship. Tommy L. Lott is Professor of Philosophy at San Jose State University. He is author of The Invention of Race (Blackwell 1999), editor of Subjugation and Bondage: Critical Essays on Slavery and Social Philosophy (1998), and co-editor, with Robert Bernasconi, of The Idea of Race (2000). Klappentext This volume adds a new dimension to current research on race theory by examining its historical roots in the works of major Western philosophers. The essays included in this book span a wide range of topics, including the opposition between Greek and "barbarian" in the works of Plato and Aristotle, the notion of racial difference employed in medieval Islamic thought, as well as the existence of racial categories within the social contract and Enlightenment theories of Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Kant. The readings also discuss repercussions in the post-Enlightenment period in the views of Nietzsche, Mill, and Carlyle, and twentieth-century reflections on race in the thought of Heidegger, Dewey, Sartre, and Beauvoir. Philosophers on Race contributes to the increasing debate on the subject of race by elucidating the philosophical origins of race in Greek and medieval thought and the subsequent development of racial categories in modern Western philosophy. Zusammenfassung * Examines the historical roots of race in the works of major Western philosophers. * Contains eleven new essays! some of which cover ancient Greek and Islamic medieval thought. * Demonstrates new ways to analyze historical thinkers. . Inhaltsverzeichnis Contributors. Acknowledgments. Introduction. 1. Distinction Without a Difference? Race and Genos in Plato (Rachana Kamtekar). 2. Ethnos in the Politics: Aristole and Race (Julie K. Ward). 3. Medieval Muslim Philosophers on Race (Paul-A. Hardy). 4. Patriarchy and Slavery in Hobbes's Political Philosophy (Tommy L. Lott). 5. "An Inconsistency not to be Excused": On Locke and Racism (William Uzgalis). 6. Locke and the Dispossession of the American Indian (Kathy Squadrito). 7. Between Primates and Primitives: Natural Man as the Missing Link in Rousseau's Second Discourse (Francis Moran III). 8. Kant as an Unfamiliar Source of Racism (Robert Bernasconi). 9. "The Great Play and Fight of Forces": Nietzsche on Race (Daniel W. Conway). 10. Liberalism's Limits: Carlyle and Mill on "The Negro Question" (David Theo Goldberg). 11. Heidegger and the Jewish Question: Metaphysical Racism in Silence and Word (Berel Lang). 12. Sartre on American Racism (Julien Murphy). 13. Sartrean Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism (Lewis R. Gordon). 14. Beavoir and the Problem of Racism (Margaret A. Simons). 15. Dewey's Philosophical Approach to Racial Prejudice (Gregory Fernando Pappas). Index. ...
