Arthur de Gobineau on Blood and Race

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ID2966348
AuthorsJohn Nale (University of Southern Maine, corresponding author)
Year2014
Volume2
Issue1
Pages106-124
Publication date2014-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCritical Philosophy of Race (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2165-8684 • E-ISSN: 2165-8692
PublisherThe Pennsylvania State University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5325/critphilrace.2.1.0106
OpenAlexW2241358840
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited15

The notion of racial blood in Gobineau's Essai sur l'inégalité des races humaines is not deployed in a strictly physiological manner. Gobineau refers to blood in a number of passages designating a spiritual and historical substance accounting for the unity of a people. This use of the term cannot be discredited by a chemical or genetic analysis of the material blood because Gobineau is not engaged in a classification of physical body types but rather a historical explanation of civilizations' progress and degeneration. The blood refers to more than a mere biological trait. And the term is deployed in an attempt to comprehend one's physical, psychical, social, political, and, above all, historical ways of being

Biology · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Ethnology · Genealogy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Trait · Gender Studies · History · History of Science and Medicine · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy and History of Science · Race, Genetics, and Society

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