Sara Eigen Figal

Heredity, Race, and the Birth of the Modern (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In this volume, Eigen places under sustained scrutiny some of our most basic modern assumptions about inheritance, genealogy, blood relations, and racial categories in order to answer the question, what constitutes "good" bonds among humans, and what compels us to determine them so across generations as both a physical and a metaphysical attribute?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135891602
• Artikelnr.: 38249439

Autorenporträt

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.