The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races
A Critical Primary Source on Race, Empire, and Nineteenth-Century European ThoughtBy comte de Arthur Gobineau
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The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races presents Arthur de Gobineau's attempt to explain human history through a hierarchical theory of racial difference. Combining historical speculation, philosophical argument, and sweeping cultural comparison, the work contends that the rise and decline of civilizations depend chiefly upon inherited racial qualities and the effects of racial mixture. Its elevated, often rhetorical prose reflects the nineteenth-century tradition of grand historical synthesis, while its claims belong to the era's developing—though scientifically unsound—racial anthropology. Read in context, the book is less a reliable study of human societies than a revealing document in the genealogy of modern racial thought. Gobineau, a French aristocrat, diplomat, and man of letters, wrote amid profound European anxieties concerning social change, democratic politics, nationalism, and the perceived decline of traditional hierarchies. His aristocratic convictions and his engagement with comparative history shaped his conviction that civilization was threatened by egalitarianism and racial "degeneration." These ideological commitments, rather than empirical research, largely determined the book's conclusions and its enduring controversy. This volume is recommended to readers of intellectual history, nineteenth-century political thought, and the history of racism. It should be approached critically, alongside contemporary scholarship in genetics, anthropology, and historiography, which decisively rejects Gobineau's racial hierarchy. Precisely because of its influence on later racial ideologies, however, the book remains important for understanding how literary authority and historical narrative were mobilized to naturalize social prejudice.
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Publish dateNov 24, 2023
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Moral and Intellectual Diversity of Races
14NOTE TO THE PRECEDING CHAPTER.
2CHAPTER I.
15CHAPTER XIII.
3CHAPTER II.
16CHAPTER XIV.
4CHAPTER III.
17CHAPTER XV.
5CHAPTER IV.
18A.
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6CHAPTER V.
19SPECIES.
7CHAPTER VI.
20VARIETIES.
8CHAPTER VII.
21HYBRIDITY.
9INTRODUCTORY NOTE TO CHAPTERS VIII. AND IX.
22C.
10CHAPTER VIII.
23VARIETIES.
11CHAPTER IX.
24VARIETIES.
12CHAPTER X.
25VARIETIES.
13CHAPTER XI.
26VARIETIES.
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