Huaping Lu-Adler

Kant, Race, and Racism

Views from Somewhere

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 158mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9780197803097
• ISBN-10: 0197803091
• Artikelnr.: 73480870

Autorenporträt

Huaping Lu-Adler is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University. She specializes in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Western philosophy (particularly epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of science, and logic). She is the author of Kant and the Science of Logic (Oxford, 2018).

Inhaltsangabe

* Note on Sources and Abbreviations
* General Introduction
* 1. The debate continues
* 2. It is not just about Kant: reconceptualizing his relation to
racism
* 3. Is there really a "contradiction"?
* 4. Locating Kant's racial views in his system
* 5. Kant's philosophy and antiracism
* 6. About the title and plan of this book
* Part I Reframe the Discourse
* Chapter 1 Whence Comes the Contradiction? -Reconsider the Place of
Race in Kant's System
* 1. Introduction
* 2. Arguing from an assumed contradiction: a literature review
* 3. Racism and Kant's moral universalism: a noncontradictory pairing
* 4. From what nature makes of man to what man can make of himself:
raciology in Kant's system
* 4.1. Physical geography as the original home of racialism
* 4.2. Racist upshot in pragmatic anthropology
* 5. Three levels of discourse: pure morals, anthropology, and
geography
* 6. Conclusion
* Chapter 2 "Racism" in What Sense?-Reconceptualize Kant's Relation to
Racism
* 1. Introduction
* 2. Characterizations of Kant's "racism": a preliminary overview
* 3. Which "racism"?-in search of a better way to conceptualize Kant's
relation to racism
* 3.1. How interpreters of Kant have conceptualized racism
* 3.2. How some race theorists have analyzed 'racism'
* 4. Kant and the racist-ideological formation
* 5. Conclusion
* Part II Seeing "Race"
* Chapter 3 Investigating Nature under the Guidance of Reason-Kant's
Approach to "Race" as a Naturforscher
* 1. Introduction
* 2. Race from the standpoint of a Naturforscher: a sketch of Kant's
view
* 3. Commitments of a Naturforscher: some telling clues in Kant's early
works
* 4. A theory of hypothesis for the Kantian Naturforscher
* 5. Interlude: Kant's methodological turn after his first essay on
race
* 6. The influence of reason on the investigation of nature: unity and
teleology
* 6.1. Systematic unity and regulative principles of reason in the
first Critique
* 6.2. Kant on the use of teleological principles in the 1788 essay on
race
* 7. A teleological-mechanical mode of explanation: how the third
Critique solidifies Kant's race theory
* 8. Conclusion
* Chapter 4 From Baconian Natural History to Kant's Racialization of
Human Differences-A Study of Philosophizing from Locations of Power
* 1. Introduction
* 2. Francis Bacon, the Royal Society, and a global data production
* 2.1. Bacon and the program of natural history
* 2.2. Boyle and a scientific attention to skin color
* 3. The beginning of a paradigm shift: Linnaeus's Systema Naturae and
human varieties
* 4. Buffon: scientific monogenesis, degeneration, and the problem of
slavery
* 4.1. Buffon on natural history, with a critique of the Linnaean
taxonomy
* 4.2. Mapping human "varieties," with passing remarks on slavery
* 4.3. Climate, moule interieur, and degeneration: Buffon's scientific
monogenism
* 4.4. Degeneration and human perfectibility: an entanglement of theory
and practice
* 5. Going beyond Buffon: Kant on "race," monogenesis, and slavery
* 5.1. Kant's Naturgeschichte and a new model of monogenesis
* 5.2. Kantian monogenism, human progress, and racial slavery
* 6. Conclusion
* Part III A Worldview Transformed by "Race"
* Chapter 5 What is Seen Cannot Be Unseen-What Kant Can(not) Tell Us
about Racial (Self-)Perceptions
* 1. Introduction
* 2. From race concepts to racial ideology
* 3. Kant on abstraction, or why it is so hard to unsee race
* 4. Kleist: "Kant crisis" and the tragic trap of racialization
* 5. William der Neger: the double consciousness of a "Negro"
* 6. Conclusion
* Chapter 6 Race and the Claim to True Philosophy-Kant and the
Formation of a Exclusionary History of Philosophy
* 1. Introduction
* 2. Eclecticism, system making, and critique: competing ways of
philosophizing
* 2.1. Eclecticism versus dogmatic systematization: an
eighteenth-century debate
* 2.2. Kant on the "eye of true philosophy": systematicity with a
worldly orientation
* 3. Beholding the history of philosophy with a true philosophical eye
* 3.1. The Kantian rational history of philosophy
* 3.2. From Brucker's historia to Kant's Geschichte of philosophy
* 4. Kant on the origin of "true philosophy": toward a racially
exclusionary history of philosophy
* 5. Conclusion
* A Forward-Looking Conclusion
* 1. Kant as a scholar and as an educator: how I have interpreted his
relation to racism
* 2. How we move forward with Kant's philosophy: some programmatic
ideas
* 2.1. Normative reorientation and standpoint awareness: the work of a
liberal Kantian scholar
* 2.2. Students as situated meaning makers: the work of a liberal
Kantian educator
* Acknowledgements
* Bibliography
* Index