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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... individual with the necessary qualifications . I have included some illustrations to provide an example of what such material may add to the liter- ary sources that form the basis of this study . The structure of this book follows from ...
... individual with a single personality . Contemporary west- ern society is marked by a substantial degree of sensitivity to such attitudes , although , at the same time , the symptoms are widespread , even where there is no public or ...
... individual identity , has to take into account self - perception , the views of others of oneself , and the percep- tion of others ' views of oneself . " It will be understood that a consideration of hostility towards , say , Egyptians ...
... individual differences , but he was not very consistent in his usage . " Note that this represents a combination of external influence ( climate ) and he- redity . It has even been suggested that racial theoretical thinking is found ...
... individuals , who obey no laws but those of passion and ca- price . " This approach echoes that of the ancient texts : the treatise Airs , Waters , Places and the works of Aristotle and Strabo , among others . Buffon's contemporary ...