Andrew S Curran
Biographic Data
| ID | 5658361 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew S Curran |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew S |
| FAMILY NAME | Curran |
| SIGNATURE | CURRAN A S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Wesleyan University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Imaginer l’Afrique au siècle des Lumières
Who’s Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race
Who’s Black and Why: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race
In 1739 Bordeaux’s Royal Academy of Sciences held an essay contest seeking answers to a pressing question: What was the cause of Africans’ black skin? Published here for the first time and translated into English, these early documents of scientific racism lay bare the Enlightenment origins of the phantom of racial hierarchy
Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely
A vivacious biography of the prophetic and sympathetic philosopher who along with Voltaire and Rousseau built the foundations of the modern world, and travelled as far as Russia to enlighten the Tsarina Catherine the Great. Denis Diderot is often associated with the decades-long battle to bring the world's first comprehensive Encyclopédie into existence. But his most compelling and personal writing took place in the shadows. Thrown into prison fo…
Anthropology
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The Anatomy of Blackness: Science and Slavery in an Age of Enlightenment
Rethinking Race History: The Role of the Albino in the French Enlightenment Life Sciences1
The scholarly quest to recover the construction of racial difference in the Enlightenment-era life sciences generally overlooks a singular fact: the vast majority of eighteenth-century thinkers who were engaged in theorizing the human were often far more preoccupied with preserving a belief in an essential human sameness than they were in creating categories of essential difference. This article charts the problem of a potential human sameness as…
Monstrous Imagination by Marie-Hélène Huet
L 'E sprit C réateur Jacques Berchtold. D e s R a t s e t d e s r a t i è r e s . A n a m o r p h o s e s D 'u n c h a m p m é t a p h o r i q u e d e s a i n t A u g u s t i n à J e a n R a c i n e . Histoire des idées et critique littéraire, vol. 311. Geneva: Librairie Droz S.A., 1992. Pp. 273. The sub-title of this witty and ingenious book somewhat misleadingly suggests a systematic tracking of its subject from the 5th to the 17th century. It …
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Monstrous Imagination by Marie-Hélène Huet
L 'E sprit C réateur Jacques Berchtold. D e s R a t s e t d e s r a t i è r e s . A n a m o r p h o s e s D 'u n c h a m p m é t a p h o r i q u e d e s a i n t A u g u s t i n à J e a n R a c i n e . Histoire des idées et critique littéraire, vol. 311. Geneva: Librairie Droz S.A., 1992. Pp. 273. The sub-title of this witty and ingenious book somewhat misleadingly suggests a systematic tracking of its subject from the 5th to the 17th century. It …
Rethinking Race History: The Role of the Albino in the French Enlightenment Life Sciences1
The scholarly quest to recover the construction of racial difference in the Enlightenment-era life sciences generally overlooks a singular fact: the vast majority of eighteenth-century thinkers who were engaged in theorizing the human were often far more preoccupied with preserving a belief in an essential human sameness than they were in creating categories of essential difference. This article charts the problem of a potential human sameness as…
The Anatomy of Blackness: Science and Slavery in an Age of Enlightenment
Anthropology
A summary is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Diderot and the Art of Thinking Freely
A vivacious biography of the prophetic and sympathetic philosopher who along with Voltaire and Rousseau built the foundations of the modern world, and travelled as far as Russia to enlighten the Tsarina Catherine the Great. Denis Diderot is often associated with the decades-long battle to bring the world's first comprehensive Encyclopédie into existence. But his most compelling and personal writing took place in the shadows. Thrown into prison fo…
Who’s Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race
Who’s Black and Why: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race
In 1739 Bordeaux’s Royal Academy of Sciences held an essay contest seeking answers to a pressing question: What was the cause of Africans’ black skin? Published here for the first time and translated into English, these early documents of scientific racism lay bare the Enlightenment origins of the phantom of racial hierarchy
Imaginer l’Afrique au siècle des Lumières
Art (3 works) · Race, History, and American Society (3 works) · 18th century (2 works) · Australian History and Society (2 works) · Colonialism, slavery, and trade (2 works) · Critical Race Theory in Education (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · 19th century (1 works)