Title Another mind-body problem : a history of racial non-being / John Harfouch

Published Albany : State University of New York Press, [2018] ©2018

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Description 1 online resource (xxxv, 232 pages) Series SUNY series, philosophy and race SUNY series, philosophy and race. Contents Descartes' fundamental mind-body problem : the question of sex -- The distinct origins of mind and body -- The disposition of the blood and the sexual generation of the union -- The racial legacy of a genealogical mind-body dualism -- A thing not-yet human : Bonnet's problem of the egg -- Leibniz's history of mind and body -- The not-yet human : Bonnet's history of the mind-body union -- A problem of the egg -- "All races will be extinguished ... only not that of the whites" : a mind-body problem in the Kantian tradition -- Racial mind-body unions -- The overturning of the mind-body problem -- Solutions and experts Summary Demonstrates the profound overlap of philosophy's mind-body problem and various racist doctrines found in thinkers ranging from Descartes to Kant Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-223) and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 24, 2018) Subject Philosophical anthropology. Mind and body. Human beings. Race. Physical anthropology. Racial Groups Anthropology, Physical Humans philosophical anthropology. Homo sapiens (species) physical anthropology. race (group of people) SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. Human beings Mind and body Philosophical anthropology Physical anthropology Race Form Electronic book ISBN 9781438469973 1438469977

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