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The Race Makers: A History of the Enlightenment’s Most Dangerous Legacy

The Race Makers: A History of the Enlightenment’s Most Dangerous Legacy


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In the early eighteenth century, Christianity began to lose its hold on the story of humankind. Yet centuries of xenophobia, religious intolerance and emerging biological ideas did not simply disappear they were reworked by secular thinkers seeking to redefine what it meant to be human. By century's end, naturalists and philosophers had divided humankind into racial categories using methods associated with the Enlightenment era. , award-winning biographer and Enlightenment specialist Andrew S. Curran traces the emergence of race through thirteen pivotal figures, including Louis XIV, Buffon, Linnaeus, Voltaire, Hume, Adam Smith, Kant and Jefferson. From the gilded halls of Versailles to the slave plantations of the Caribbean, and from the court of the Mughal Empire to the drawing rooms of Monticello, Curran reveals how the Enlightenment's pursuit of knowledge became entangled with systems of empire and oppression, offering a bold reappraisal of the era's most famous luminaries.

About the Author :
Andrew S. Curran is the William Armstrong Professor of Humanities at Wesleyan University. A writer-scholar fascinated by the eighteenth century, his writing has appeared in The New York Review of Books, New York Times, The Guardian, Newsweek, TIME, Paris Review, El País and The Wall Street Journal. Curran is the author and editor of five books, including Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely, and, with Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Who’s Black and Why?.

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‘[A] brilliant study … Curran concludes by spotlighting Black intellectuals of the era in a fascinating counter-history. A thorough and eminently readable dissection of a pernicious lie.’


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781908906632
  • Publisher: Saqi Books
  • Publisher Imprint: The Westbourne Press
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 512
  • Returnable: 03
  • Sub Title: A History of the Enlightenment’s Most Dangerous Legacy
  • Width: 153 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1908906634
  • Publisher Date: 12 Feb 2026
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: 03
  • Spine Width: 26 mm
  • Weight: 650 gr


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