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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... authors . In this work I shall not use the term " Others " frequently , because " the Other " has in recent decades ... author was the victim of the follies of his time , for he wrote an almost reasonable book about a misguided topic and ...
... authors in search of concepts who did not necessarily agree with one another and developed differ- ent and often contradictory ideas . In this stage racism remained a fairly moder- ate doctrine , based on environmentalism and ...
... authors meant to convey or conveyed , sometimes without meaning to do so , about other peoples and about foreigners living in their midst . It does not follow that we can deduce from their writings how the Greeks and Romans treated them ...
... authors of the second half of the eighteenth century such as Dr. Johnson , put less credence in climatic causation : Johnson Formation , p . 48 . 22 Voltaire , Essai sur les moeurs et l'esprit des nations 1 [ 1756 ] ( Paris 1963 ) , 6 ...
... authors who resisted such patterns , for instance the remarkable and cou- rageous philosopher Helvetius ( 1715-1771 ) , who firmly denies any correlation between physical and mental characteristics.29 25 Immanuel Kant , Beobachtungen ...