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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... human tendency to generalize and simplify , so that whole nations are treated as a single individual with a single personality . Contemporary west- ern society is marked by a substantial degree of sensitivity to such attitudes ...
... humanity , has grown progressively blacker in a tropical climate and can recover his original , normal color by ... Human Diversity : Nationalism , Racism , and Exoticism in French Thought ( Cambridge , MA , 1993 ) . 96-106 , esp ...
... human beings can procreate together and must therefore belong to the same species . However , there is , in his view , a definite hierarchy of subspecies in which some peoples are closer to animals and others further removed from them ...
... Human Diversity , 98 : " It is clear that for Buffon the term ' barbarous ' is correlated with ' independent ' — that is , asocial . " 21 Cited in full , below , in chapter 1. Hume , like some other authors of the second half of the ...
... Human Beings ( Oxford and New York , 2000 ) . 93-100 . It is generally acknowledged that Kant cherished racist theories , but there are shades and differences of interpretation and emphasis in the evaluation of his views . 27 There is ...