The History of the Race Idea (Cw3): From Ray to Carus Volume 3

by Eric Voegelin

In The History of the Race Idea: From Ray to Carus, Eric Voegelin places the rise of the race idea in the context of the development of modern philosophy. The history of the race idea, according to Voegelin, begins with the postChristian orientation toward a natural system of living forms. In the late seventeenth century, philosophy set about a new task--to oppose the devaluation of man's physical nature. By the middle of the eighteenth century the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807118435
• ISBN13: 9780807118436
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: University of Missouri Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Postsecondary to Grade 5