Harfouch Another Mind-Body Problem

A History of Racial Non-being
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-4384-6997-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 268 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series, Philosophy and Race

Demonstrates the profound overlap of philosophy’s mind-body problem and various racist doctrines found in thinkers ranging from Descartes to Kant.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harfouch, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophie: Allgemeines, Methoden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction

A Racial Non-Being
The Thesis and Goal of This Study
The Methodology of a Critical History of the Mind-Body Problem

1. Descartes’s 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

2. 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

3. “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

Notes
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

John Harfouch is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Alabama–Huntsville and the coeditor (with Leonard Lawlor) of The Cambridge Foucault Lexicon.