The Inequality of Human Races (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Arthur Gobineau

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 133245724X ISBN 13 : 9781332457243

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Racial differences are presented as a permanent factor shaping history and civilization. This edition invites you to weigh the evidence and ideas that have influenced debates on race and progress.

The book surveys early theories of human varieties, tracing how different approaches to skull measurement and classification shaped ideas about race. It presents historical methods, compares researchers like Camper, Blumenbach, and Morton, and explains how these ideas were used to explain civilization, language, and culture. The aim is to illuminate a controversial topic with careful historical context while highlighting the limits and debates of such classifications.

• Learn how 19th‑century scholars analyzed skull shapes and measurements as a way to classify human groups.


• Explore the evolution of racial theories and their claims about intelligence, civilization, and culture.


• See how competing methods tried to capture human diversity, including the pros and cons of different approaches.


• Understand the broader discussion about race, environment, and the foundations of social hierarchy.

Ideal for readers interested in the historical development of racial thought and its impact on ideas about civilization and difference.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from The Inequality of Human Races

Though many people have accused this age of irreligion, there is at least one point of similarity between modem Europe and that pre-Christian Era to which our present religion is due. Just as in ancient Palestine, there are living amongst us two kinds of prophets - the prophets of evil and disaster, and those of bliss, or as Europe likes to call it, of "progress." As in Palestine of old the public usually sides with the lighter, the optimistic, the more comfortable sort of people, with the prophets of bliss, while Time and Fate invariably decide in favour of the sterner and gloomier individuals, the prophets of evil. In the world to-day as well as in Palestine of old, the prophets of bliss are the false prophets; the prophets of evil, to-day as of yore, are the true ones. Such a true prophet was Count Arthur de Gobineau.

Even his friends - those few friends whom he gained at the end of his life - still thought him unduly pessimistic. Old Wagner, who introduced him to the German public, thought of brightening his gloom by a little Christian faith, hope, and charity, in order to make the pill more palatable to that great public, which he, the great Stage-manager, knew so well. Other Germans - Chamberlain, Schemann, and the Gobineau school - poured a great deal of water into his wine, sweetened it with patriotic syrups, adulterated it with their own pleasant inventions, which were all too readily swallowed by a gullible and credulous generation. But stem old Gobineau knew the world better than his young and cheerful offspring. He had seen through all that boisterous gaiety of the age, all its breathless labour, all its technical advancement, all its materialistic progress, and had diagnosed, behind it that muddle of moral values which our forefathers have bequeathed to us and which in our generation has only become a greater muddle still.

Présentation de l'éditeur

This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 133245724X
• ISBN 13: 9781332457243
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
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