Kant and the Concept of Race : Late Eighteenth-Century Writings.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Translator's Introduction: Recent Work on Kant's Race Theory / The Texts / The Translations -- Recent Work on Kant's Race Theory -- The Texts -- The Translations -- Conclusion -- Chapter 1: Of the Different Human Races: An Announcement of Lectures in Physical Geography in the Summer Semester 1775 -- 1. Of the diversity of races in general -- 2. Division of the human species into its different races -- 3. Of the immediate causes of the origin of these different races -- Chapter 2: Of the Different Human Races (1777) -- 1. Of the diversity of races in general -- 2. Division of the human species into its different races -- 3. Of the immediate causes of the origin of these different races -- 4. Of the occasional causes of the establishment of the different races -- Chapter 3: Geographical History of Human Beings and the Universally Dispersed Quadrupeds (1778-1783) -- First Part: Universally Dispersed Animals and their Degenerate Forms (Ausartungen) -- First Section: Human Beings -- Second Division -- Third Division -- Chapter 4: Determination of the Concept of a Human Race (1785) -- 1. -- 2. -- 3. -- 4. -- 5. -- 6. -- Comment -- Chapter 5: Something More About the Human Races (1786) -- Chapter 6: On the Use of Teleological Principles in Philosophy (1788) -- Chapter 7: Of the Varieties and Deviate Forms of Negroes (1790) -- Chapter 8: Concerning the Kantian Principle for Natural History: An Attempt to Treat this Science Philosophically (1796) -- Preface -- [1] First Section -- Theory -- Presentation of the Basic Principles [Grundsätze] -- Chronology -- 1619 -- 1630 -- 1650 -- 1651 -- 1654 -- 1660 -- 1661 -- 1662 -- 1665 -- 1670 -- 1672 -- 1673 -- 1674 -- 1677 -- 1682 -- 1683 -- 1686 -- 1687 -- 1688 -- 1689 -- 1690 -- 1693 -- 1694 -- 1713 -- 1714 -- 1718 -- 1720 -- 1724 -- 1727 -- 1729 -- 1735 -- 1736 -- 1738.

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Late eighteenth-century writings on race by Kant and four of his contemporaries.

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