Philosophers on Race

Critical Essays

Julie K. Ward, Tommy L. Lott (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

330 Seiten

2002
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-0-631-22226-2 (ISBN)

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Offers a research on race theory by examining its historical roots in the works of Western philosophers. The essays included in this book span a range of topics, including the opposition between Greek and 'barbarian' in the works of Plato and Aristotle, and the notion of racial difference employed in medieval Islamic thought.

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).

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.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	11.1.2002
Verlagsort	Hoboken
Sprache	englisch
Maße	180 x 254 mm
Gewicht	717 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie des Mittelalters
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-631-22226-X / 063122226X
ISBN-13	978-0-631-22226-2 / 9780631222262
Zustand	Neuware