Enlightenment Anthropology: Defining Humanity in an Era of Colonialism

In this book, Carl Niekerk probes the origins of modern anthropology in the European Enlightenment, foregrounding how...
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Enlightenment Anthropology: Defining Humanity in an Era of Colonialism by Niekerk, Carl

Enlightenment Anthropology: Defining Humanity in an Era of Colonialism

$404.41

Enlightenment Anthropology: Defining Humanity in an Era of Colonialism

$404.41
Author: Carl Niekerk
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

In this book, Carl Niekerk probes the origins of modern anthropology in the European Enlightenment, foregrounding how the knowledge transfer between an international array of natural historians and public intellectuals--including Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon; Voltaire; Denis Diderot; Johann Friedrich Blumenbach; Immanuel Kant; and Johann Gottfried Herder--shaped the emerging discipline and its central debates. Reexamining how these many voices crossed paths and diverged, Niekerk sharpens our understanding of how anthropology, as we know it today, came to be.

As a "natural history of man," anthropology during the Enlightenment argued that humans across the globe belonged to a single species and that human diversity could be explained as the product of time and space, climate and geography. While this knowledge could be emancipatory--fostering curiosity rather than superiority around questions of difference among some thinkers--it also contributed to the emergence of new notions, especially "race" and "culture," that were used by many to justify slavery and the colonial project.

With an emphasis on how we can use the ambiguities and deficiencies of the past to help guide our thinking and actions today, this book will appeal to a widely interdisciplinary audience, including anthropologists, historians and philosophers of science, intellectual historians, Germanists, and scholars of the European Enlightenment.



Author: Carl Niekerk
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Published: 04/16/2024
Pages: 270
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d
ISBN: 9780271096865

About the Author

Carl Niekerk is Professor of German and Affiliate Professor of French, Comparative and World Literature, and Jewish Studies at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He is the editor of The Radical Enlightenment in Germany: A Cultural Perspective and author of Zwischen Naturgeschichte und Anthropologie: Lichtenberg im Kontext der Spätaufklärung.


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