Author : Sara Eigen Figal
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135891605
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)
Book Synopsis Heredity, Race, and the Birth of the Modern by : Sara Eigen Figal
Download or read book Heredity, Race, and the Birth of the Modern written by Sara Eigen Figal and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book places under sustained scrutiny some of our most basic modern assumptions about inheritance, genealogy, blood relations, and racial categories. It has at its core a deceptively simple question, one too often taken for granted: what constitutes "good" bonds among humans, and what compels us to determine them so across generations as both a physical and a metaphysical attribute? Answering this question is complex and involves a foray into a seemingly disparate array of early modern sources: from adages, common law, and literature about bloodlines and bastardy to philosophical, political, and scientific discourses that both confirm and confound the "common sense" of familial, communal, national, and racial identity.
