Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. Modes of Difference
6. What “Progresses” has Race-Theory Made Since the Times of Leibniz and Wolff? 11
7. Laocoön and the Hottentots 23
8. Race in Philosophy
9. Policing Polygeneticism in Germany, 1775 (Kames,) Kant, and Blumenbach 35
10. Kant’s Conception of a Human Race 55
11. Kant and Blumenbach’s Polyps 73
12. Race, Freedom and the Fall in Steffens and Kant 91
13. Race in the Sciences of Culture
14. The German Invention of Völkerkunde 123
15. Gods, Titans, and Monsters 147
16. From Indo-Germans to Aryans 167
17. Race in the Political Sphere
18. Policing the Menschen=Racen 185
19. Jewish Emancipation and the Politics of Race 203
20. Contributors 213
21. Index 215