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Race and the Crisis of Humanism (Hardcover)
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Race and the Crisis of Humanism (Hardcover)
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The idea of race underwent a radical shift in the mid-19th century.
Whereas the different races of 'man' were previously understood as
'tribal' or 'national' varieties of an essentially unified
humanity, by 1850, racial difference was understood to be
fundamentally biological, and the different races came to be
regarded as permanent types. The idea that humankind constituted a
unity, albeit at different stages of 'development', was in the 19th
century challenged with a new way of thinking, when the 'savagery'
of certain races was no longer regarded as a stage in their
progress towards 'civilisation', but as their permanent state. What
caused this shift? In Kay Anderson's provocative new account, she
argues that British colonial encounters in Australia from the late
1700s with the apparently unimproved condition of the Australian
Aborigine, viewed against an understanding of 'humanity' of the
time (that is, as characterised by separation from nature),
precipitated a crisis in existing ideas of what it meant to be
human. As consternation grew not only about their inclination but
about their very capacity for improvement, and particularly for
cultivation, the Aborigines challenged the
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