The Color of Equality: Race and Common Humanity in Enlightenment Thought by Vartija, Devin J.
The Color of Equality: Race and Common Humanity in Enlightenment Thought by Vartija, Devin J.

The Color of Equality: Race and Common Humanity in Enlightenment Thought

The Enlightenment is often either praised as the wellspring of modern egalitarianism or condemned as the cradle...
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Author: Devin J. Vartija
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The Color of Equality: Race and Common Humanity in Enlightenment Thought by Vartija, Devin J.

The Color of Equality: Race and Common Humanity in Enlightenment Thought

$208.58
The Color of Equality: Race and Common Humanity in Enlightenment Thought by Vartija, Devin J.

The Color of Equality: Race and Common Humanity in Enlightenment Thought

$208.58
Author: Devin J. Vartija
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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The Enlightenment is often either praised as the wellspring of modern egalitarianism or condemned as the cradle of scientific racism. How should we make sense of this paradox? The Color of Equality is the first book to investigate both the inclusive language of common humanity and the hierarchical language of race in Enlightenment thought, seeking to understand how eighteenth-century thinkers themselves made sense of these tensions. Using three major Enlightenment encyclopedias from England, France, and Switzerland, the book provides a rich contextualization of the conflicting ideas of equality and race in eighteenth-century thought.

Enlightenment thinkers used physical features to categorize humanity into novel racial groups in a discourse that was imbued with Eurocentric aesthetic and moral judgments. Simultaneously, however, these very same thinkers politicized equality by putting it to new uses, such as a vitriolic denunciation of slavery and inhumane treatment that was grounded in the nascent philosophy of human rights. Vartija contends that the tension between Enlightenment ideas of race and equality can best be explained by these thinkers' attempt to provide a naturalistic account of humanity, including both our physical and moral attributes. Enlightenment racial classification fits into the novel inclusion of humanity in histories of nature, while the search for the origins of morality in social experience alone lent equality a normative authority it had not previously possessed.

Eschewing straightforward approbation or blame of the Enlightenment, The Color of Equality demonstrates that our present-day thinking about human physical and cultural diversity continues to be deeply informed by an eighteenth-century European intellectual revolution with global ramifications.

Author: Devin J. Vartija
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 08/06/2021
Pages: 312
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.06h x 5.98w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9780812253191

About the Author
Devin J. Vartija is Assistant Professor of History at Utrecht University.
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