Philosophers on Race Critical Essays

This volume adds a new dimension to current research on race theory by examining its historical roots in the works of major Western philosophers. The essays included in this book span a wide range of topics, including the opposition between Greek and barbarian in the works of Plato and Aristotle, the notion of racial difference employed in medieval Islamic thought, as well as the existence of racial categories within the social contract and Enlightenment theories of Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and Kant. The readings also discuss repercussions in the post-Enlightenment period in the views of Nietzsche, Mill, and Carlyle, and twentieth-century reflections on race in the thought of Heidegger, Dewey, Sartre, and Beauvoir. Philosophers on Race contributes to the increasing debate on the subject of race by elucidating the philosophical origins of race in Greek and medieval thought and the subsequent development of racial categories in modern Western philosophy.

Julie K. Ward is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Loyola University, Chicago. She has published papers both in ancient philosophy and in feminism, and edited the anthology Feminism and Ancient Philosophy (1996), to which she contributed a chapter on Aristotle's theory of friendship.

Tommy L. Lott is Professor of Philosophy at San Jose State University. He is author of The Invention of Race (Blackwell 1999), editor of Subjugation and Bondage: Critical Essays on Slavery and Social Philosophy (1998), and co-editor, with Robert Bernasconi, of The Idea of Race (2000).

Contributors

vii

Acknowledgments

x

Introduction

xi

Distinction Without a Difference? Race and Genos in Plato

1

(13)

Rachana Kamtekar

Ethnos in the Politics: Aristotle and Race

14

(24)

Julie K. Ward

Medieval Muslim Philosophers on Race

38

(25)

Paul-A. Hardy

Patriarchy and Slavery in Hobbes's Political Philosophy

63

(18)

Tommy L. Lott

``An Inconsistency not to be Excused'': On Locke and Racism

81

(20)

William Uzgalis

Locke and the Dispossession of the American Indian

101

(24)

Kathy Squadrito

Between Primates and Primitives: Natural Man as the Missing Link in Rousseau's Second Discourse

125

(20)

Francis Moran III

Kant as an Unfamiliar Source of Racism

145

(22)

Robert Bernasconi

``The Great Play and Fight of Forces'': Nietzsche on Race

167

(28)

Daniel W. Conway

Liberalism's Limits: Carlyle and Mill on ``The Negro Question''

195

(10)

David Theo Goldberg

Heidegger and the Jewish Question: Metaphysical Racism in Silence and Word

205

(17)

Berel Lang

Sartre on American Racism

222

(19)

Julien Murphy

Sartrean Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism

241

(19)

Lewis R. Gordon

Beauvoir and the Problem of Racism

260

(25)

Margaret A. Simons

Dewey's Philosophical Approach to Racial Prejudice

285

(13)

Gregory Fernando Pappas

Index

298

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