Ideas of 'Race' in the History of the Humanities (Palgrave Critical Studies of Antisemitism and Racism)

This Volume Is Concerned With The Hitherto Neglected Role Of The Humanities In The Histories Of The Idea Of Race. Its Aim Is To Begin To Fill In This Significant Lacuna. If, In The Decades Following World War Ii And The Holocaust - Years That Witnessed European Decolonization And The African-american Civil Rights Movement - The Concept Of 'race' Slowly But Surely Lost Its Legitimacy As A Cultural, Political And Scientific Category, For Much Of The Nineteenth And The First Half Of The Twentieth Century Concepts Of Race Enjoyed Widespread Currency In Numerous Fields Of Knowledge Such As The History Of Art, History, Musicology, Or Philosophy. Bringing Together Some Of The Most Distinguished Scholars In Their Respective Fields, This Is The First Collective Attempt To Address The History Of Notions Of Race In The Humanities As A Whole. Amos Morris-reich And Dirk Rupnow, Editors. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Front Matter....Pages i-xiii Introduction....Pages 1-31 Were Early Modern Europeans Racist?1 ....Pages 33-87 Formal Analysis: Art and Anthropology....Pages 89-111 Max Grunwald and the Formation of Jewish Folkloristics: Another Perspective on Race in German-Speaking Volkskunde ....Pages 113-138 Racism and Anti-Semitism in the German Political Economy: The Example of Carl Schmitt’s 1936 Berlin Conference “Jewry in Jurisprudence”....Pages 139-157 Theogony as Ethnogony: Race and Religion in Friedrich Schelling’s Philosophy of Mythology....Pages 159-193 Race and Richard Wagner....Pages 195-214 The Concept of Race in Musicological Thought: From General Remarks to a Case Study of So-called Gypsy Music in European Culture....Pages 215-234 On Racial Thinking and the Problem of “Oriental” Prehistory....Pages 235-250 “Nordics” and “Hamites”: Joseph Deniker and the Rise (and Fall) of Scientific Racism....Pages 251-272 Phonocentrism and the Concept of Volk: The Case of Modern China....Pages 273-296 “The Creation of a Frustrated People”: Race, Education, the Teaching of History and South African Historiography in the Apartheid Era....Pages 297-315 Afterword....Pages 317-322 Back Matter....Pages 323-337 "This volume is concerned with the hitherto neglected role of the humanities in the histories of the idea of race. Its aim is to begin to fill in this significant lacuna. If, in the decades following World War II and the Holocaust - years that witnessed European decolonization and the African-American civil rights movement - the concept of 'race' slowly but surely lost its legitimacy as a cultural, political and scientific category, for much of the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century concepts of race enjoyed widespread currency in numerous fields of knowledge such as the history of art, history, musicology, or philosophy. Bringing together some of the most distinguished scholars in their respective fields, this is the first collective attempt to address the history of notions of race in the humanities as a whole."-- Provided by publisher