In the Interests of Civilization
Marxist Views of Race and Culture in the Nineteenth Century
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4456567 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Diane Β Paul (0000-0003-4053-0121, corresponding author), Diane Paul |
| Year | 1981 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 115 |
| Publication date | 1981-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the History of Ideas (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-5037 • E-ISSN: 1086-3222 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2709420 |
| OpenAlex | W2327268365 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
On August 7, 1866 Karl Marx wrote the first in series of letters to Friedrich Engels and Ludwig Kugelmann enthusiastically recommending new book, The Origin and Transformation of Man and Other Beings, by the French traveller and amateur scientist Pierre Tremaux.1 Marx's enthusiasm was not shared by Engels (who thought the book absurd), or by the scientific community or general public. Like Hume's Treatise on Human Nature, it appears to have fallen dead-born from the press; unlike the Treatise, it enjoyed no revival. Entirely ignored in histories of biology, geology, and paleontology, its importance derives solely from the fact that Marx thought it a very great advance over Darwin scientifically and far more significant in its historical and political applications. 2 The Tremaux correspondence is fairly well-known, at least among scholars concerned with Marx's and Engels' attitudes toward Darwin. someone interested in that general topic, I was eventually led to read the original letters, having up until then relied on the summaries and shortened versions in the literature. I was immediately struck by sentence my studies had not prepared me to find: As he [Tremaux] indicates, (he was in Africa long time) the common Negro type is only degeneration of much higher one. 3 The strik
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| Citations per year | 0.21 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1992 - 2025 (34) |
| Highly cited | No |