Race and the Enlightenment

A Reader

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Edited by Emmanuel Eze

Blackwell Publishers

Due/Published March 1997, 250 pages, paper

ISBN 0631201378

This contains the most important and influential writing on race that the European Enlightenment produced. Here are Jefferson, Hume, Beattie, Kant, Herder, Hegel, Blumenback, Cuvier, selections from Diderot's Encyclopedia, and more all introduced and situated in their historical, social, intellectual contexts.