Ideas of 'Race' in the History of the Humanities

Amos Morris-Reich editor Dirk Rupnow editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Springer International Publishing AG

Published:7th Aug '18

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This volume is concerned with the hitherto neglected role of the humanities in the histories of the idea of race. Its aim is to begin to fill in this significant lacuna. If, in the decades following World War II and the Holocaust – years that witnessed European decolonization and the African-American civil rights movement – the concept of ‘race’ slowly but surely lost its legitimacy as a cultural, political and scientific category, for much of the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century concepts of race enjoyed widespread currency in numerous fields of knowledge such as the history of art, history, musicology, or philosophy. Bringing together some of the most distinguished scholars in their respective fields, this is the first collective attempt to address the history of notions of race in the humanities as a whole.

ISBN: 9783319842837

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 460g

337 pages

Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017