Title The color of equality : race and common humanity in Enlightenment thought / Devin J. Vartija

Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource (287 pages) Series Intellectual History of the Modern Age Intellectual history of the modern age. Contents Chapter 1. Early modern debates on human sameness and difference -- Chapter 2. Chambers's Cyclopaedia and Supplement : the growth of the natural history of humanity -- Chapter 3. Diderot and d'Alembert's Encyclopédie : a new human science -- Chapter 4. De Felice's Encyclopédie d'Yverdon : expanding and contesting human science Summary Enlightenment thinkers bequeathed a paradoxical legacy to the modern world: they expanded the purview of equality while simultaneously inventing the modern concept of race. The Color of Equality makes sense of this tension by demonstrating that the same Enlightenment impulse--the naturalization of humanity--underlay both of these trends As our understanding of the Enlightenment has become more capacious, it makes it difficult to disentangle the messy history of Enlightenment, equality, and racial classification. This book aims to make sense of this complicated history by searching for the ways in which equality and race, human sameness and difference, may have been linked in Enlightenment thought. How was the tension between these ideas dealt with and possibly resolved? And what do transformations in thinking about equality and race tell us about the Enlightenment as an intellectual movement? To address these questions, Vartija has chosen three influential Enlightenment encyclopedias as his main corpus of primary sources: Ephraim Chambers's Cyclopaedia (London, 1728), Denis Diderot and Jean le Rond d'Alembert's Encyclopédie (Paris, 1751-1765), and Fortunato Bartolomeo De Felice's Encyclopédie d'Yverdon (Yverdon, 1770-1775) -- Provided by publisher Analysis American revolution Chambers Cyclopaedia Common humanity De Felice Encyclopédie d'Yverdon Diderot Encyclopédie Enlightenment Equality French revolution History of Race Human rights Natural history Scientific Racism Slavery Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 05, 2021) Subject Chambers, Ephraim, approximately 1680-1740. Cyclopaedia. SUBJECT Encyclopédie. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85117836 Encyclopédie d'Yverdon. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr89001941 Cyclopaedia (Chambers, Ephraim) fast Encyclopédie fast Encyclopédie d'Yverdon fast Subject Enlightenment. Equality -- Philosophy -- History -- 18th century Race -- Philosophy -- History -- 18th century Enlightenment (18th-century western movement) HISTORY -- Modern -- 18th Century. Enlightenment Equality -- Philosophy Race -- Philosophy Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780812299670 0812299671

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