Colonialism and Enlightenment

List of contents

• Introduction


• Part One. The Long View


• Chapter 1: Robert Bernasconi: Philosophical Histories as Sites of Racism: Race and Civilization in the Age of Chattel Slavery


• Part 2. Enlightenment Classification


• Chapter 2: Carl Niekerk: Race, Enlightenment Anthropology, and Radical Thought


• 3: Huaping Lu-Adler: Know Your Place, Know Your Calling: Geography, Race, and Kant's "World-Citizen"


• Chapter 4: Daniel Purdy: Undeutsch and Unmündig: Human Bondage Compared-An Enlightenment Discourse on Baltic Serfdom and Atlantic Slavery


• Chapter 5: Jürgen Overhoff: Slavery and the Slave Trade in German Children's Picture Books (1714-1827)


• Part 3. From Enlightenment Theory to Kaiserreich Colonialism and Völkisch Nationalism


• Chapter 6: Adam A. Blackler: Popularizing the Nation Colonial Literature and the Imperial Imagination


• Chapter 7: John K. Noyes: Is Race an Urphänomen? Chamberlain Reads Herder


• Chapter 8: Jeannette Eileen Jones: The Anatomy of Intellectual Powers: Craniology and the Impact of the German Enlightenment on Nineteenth-Century Scientific Theories of Blackness


• 9: Patricia Simpson: From Miracles to Miscegenation: Enlightening Skin


• Chapter 10: Micol Bez: Facta, Ficta, and Picta: Making Race with Nietzsche and Against Kant


• Part 4. The Postcolonial Present


• Chapter 11: Patrice Nganang: Polemos: Reading French-German and British-German Antagonisms Through the Cameroonian Lens

About the author

Bettina Brandt is a Teaching Professor of German and Jewish Studies at the Pennsylvania State University.
Daniel L. Purdy is a Professor of German at Pennsylvania State University. He directs the Max Kade Research Institute.

Product details

• Authors: Bettina (Teaching Professor of German and Brandt
• Assisted by: Bettina Brandt (Editor), Brandt Bettina (Editor), Daniel L Purdy (Editor), Purdy Daniel L. (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 08.09.2025
• EAN: 9780197785027
• ISBN: 978-0-19-778502-7
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Ethnic Studies, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Critical Theory, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity