The Invention of Racism in Classical AntiquityPrinceton University Press, 5 mar 2006 - 563 pagine There was racism in the ancient world, after all. This groundbreaking book refutes the common belief that the ancient Greeks and Romans harbored "ethnic and cultural," but not racial, prejudice. It does so by comprehensively tracing the intellectual origins of racism back to classical antiquity. Benjamin Isaac's systematic analysis of ancient social prejudices and stereotypes reveals that some of those represent prototypes of racism--or proto-racism--which in turn inspired the early modern authors who developed the more familiar racist ideas. He considers the literature from classical Greece to late antiquity in a quest for the various forms of the discriminatory stereotypes and social hatred that have played such an important role in recent history and continue to do so in modern society. |
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... animal , only because white and black can procre- ate together . Buffon formulates his view on the influence of ... animals and others further removed from them . As shown in part I , the environmental theory , central to the work ...
... animals [ sic ] of their own species . " Unlike Buffon , Voltaire believed in polygenesis . Being an unbeliever and ignorant of the bio- logical evidence available in his time , he had no difficulty in rejecting the unity of mankind ...
... animal . And indeed the denial of human status to groups of human beings is relevant to any discussion of racism and will be included in this book . However , the ideas just ... animals , he does not claim that they INTRODUCTION . 13.
Benjamin Isaac. slaves to animals , he does not claim that they actually are animals . Moreover , the preoccupation with the soul and the origins of primitive man , so urgent in the sixteenth century , was neither part of the ...
... animals , or are , in fact , animals , are a familiar feature of racist hatred . We shall therefore see to what extent this was common in the ancient world . These attitudes often justify the means by which subjugation is realized ...