Bachelors of Science: Seventeenth-century Identity, Then and NowTemple University Press, 1996 - 249 páginas Naomi Zack begins this extraordinary book with the premise that if one is to understand Western conceptions of racialized and gendered identity, one needs to go back to a period when such categories were not salient and examine how notions of identity in the seventeenth century were fundamentally different from subsequent constructions. The seventeenth century is the last time, for example, that Europeans had any contact with non-Europeans without racializing them. From the eighteenth century onward, race becomes a central category for Europeans in their transactions with a different world, and gender undergoes radical transformation.Zack takes the reader through a lucid tour of the lives, times, and writings of such key "bachelors of Science" as Bacon, Descartes, Newton, and Gassendi. The book situates these empiricist philosophers and their canonical reputations within the larger framework of the de facto "masculinization of science" and "scientizing of masculinity" in the seventeenth century, arguing for a more nuanced understanding of these key thinkers of the period.Other fascinating issues examined in this book include pre-racial conceptions of slavery, witchcraft trials and their connection to homosociality, and the highly sexualized nature of women's identity in the seventeenth century. Zack points out the link between elite bachelorhood, the profession of philosophy, and scientific pursuit as recreational activity. This book is a must for understanding the historical and philosophical precedents of modern scientific identity, race, and gender. Author note: Naomi Zack is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at State University New York at Albany and the author of Race and Mixed Race (Temple). |
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Contenido
Philosophy History and Criticism | 1 |
ONE Feminist Criticism | 13 |
TWO Descartes Doubt and Pyrrhonic Skepticism | 28 |
THREE The Via Media and English Empiricism | 40 |
FOUR Bachelors in Life | 57 |
FIVE Lockes Forensic Self | 68 |
SIX Propriety and Civic Identity | 84 |
SEVEN Protestant Difference and Toleration | 97 |
TEN Abuses and Uses of Children | 141 |
ELEVEN Wifemen and Feminists | 154 |
TWELVE Slavery without Race | 168 |
THIRTEEN Witches and Magi | 182 |
FOURTEEN The Wealth of Nature | 193 |
Where Do We Go from There? | 205 |
Notes | 211 |
Select Bibliography | 239 |
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