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Author Harfouch, John, author.

Title Another mind-body problem : a history of racial non-being / John Harfouch.

Publication Info. Albany : State University of New York Press, [2018]
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Description 1 online resource (xxxv, 232 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series SUNY series, philosophy and race
SUNY series, philosophy and race.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-223) and index.
Contents Descartes' 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 -- 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 -- "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.
Summary Demonstrates the profound overlap of philosophy's mind-body problem and various racist doctrines found in thinkers ranging from Descartes to Kant.
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Subject Philosophical anthropology.
Philosophical anthropology.
Mind and body.
Mind and body.
Human beings.
Human beings.
Race.
Race.
Physical anthropology.
Physical anthropology.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Harfouch, John. Another mind-body problem. Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, [2018] 9781438469959 (DLC) 2017032626 (OCoLC)1009151525
ISBN 9781438469973 (electronic book)
1438469977 (electronic book)
9781438469959
1438469950