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Heredity, Race, and the Birth of the Modern

Sara Eigen Figal
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      This book places under sustained scrutiny some of our most basic modern assumptions about inheritance, genealogy, blood relations, and racial categories. It has at its core a deceptively simple question, one too often taken for granted: what constitutes "good" bonds among humans, and what compels us to determine them so across generations as both a physical and a metaphysical attribute? Answering this question is complex and involves a foray into a seemingly disparate array of early modern sources: from adages, common law, and literature about bloodlines and bastardy to philosophical, political, and scientific discourses that both confirm and confound the "common sense" of familial, communal, national, and racial identity.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Sara Eigen Figal EAN: 9780415887809 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 390 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Taylor & Francis Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: 2010-11-03 CITY: GENRE: PHILOSOPHY / General, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

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      Philosophy

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      Sara Eigen Figal is on the faculty of the German Department at Vanderbilt University. She is co-editor (with Mark Larrimore) of The German Invention of Race, a collection of essays on eighteenth-century science, philosophy, political theory, and literature, published with SUNY Press.
      This book places under sustained scrutiny some of our most basic modern assumptions about inheritance, genealogy, blood relations, and racial categories. It has at its core a deceptively simple question, one too often taken for granted: what constitutes "good" bonds among humans, and what compels us to determine them so across generations as both a physical and a metaphysical attribute? Answering this question is complex and involves a foray into a seemingly disparate array of early modern sources: from adages, common law, and literature about bloodlines and bastardy to philosophical, political, and scientific discourses that both confirm and confound the "common sense" of familial, communal, national, and racial identity.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Sara Eigen Figal EAN: 9780415887809 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 390 g HEIGHT: 229 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Taylor & Francis Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: 2010-11-03 CITY: GENRE: PHILOSOPHY / General, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

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      Philosophy

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      Sara Eigen Figal is on the faculty of the German Department at Vanderbilt University. She is co-editor (with Mark Larrimore) of The German Invention of Race, a collection of essays on eighteenth-century science, philosophy, political theory, and literature, published with SUNY Press.

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