'Race, class and nation'. Aspects of the genesis of 'modern' racism in eighteenth-century France.

Autor/in	Goldschmidt, Werner
Titel	'Race, class and nation'. Aspects of the genesis of 'modern' racism in eighteenth-century France. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: 'Rasse, Klasse und Nation'. Aspekte der Entstehung des 'modernen' Rassismus im Frankreich des 18. Jahrhunderts.
Quelle	Aus: Wigger, Iris (Hrsg.); Ritter, Sabine (Hrsg.): Racism and modernity. Festschrift for Wulf D. Hund. Münster: Lit Verl. (2011) S. 83-101Verfügbarkeit
Reihe	Kulturwissenschaft. 35
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Sammelwerksbeitrag
ISBN	978-3-643-90149-1
Schlagwörter	Ideologie; Gesellschaft; Feudalismus; Geschichte (Histor); Freiheit; Gleichheit; Legitimation; Moderne; Nation; Rassismus; Sozialdarwinismus; Transformation; 18. Jahrhundert; Diskurs; Bürgertum; Montesquieu, Charles Louis de Secondat; Frankreich
Abstract	"Historians of racism disagree as to from which historical period the term 'racism' should apply. Hence, often a distinction is made between 'modern' and 'pre-modern' racism. This essay analyses a particular discourse that can be interpreted as a transitional phenomenon leading up to the modern racism of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, as within it the concepts of 'race', 'class' and 'nation' are still fused into a specific ideological amalgam. In the French feudalism-absolutism debate of the early eighteenth century involving Boulainvilliers, Dubos and Montesquieu, it becomes obvious how 'racist' and 'classist' ideological notions are being instrumentalized by the protagonists in the struggle for political power during the period of transition between feudal-absolutist and bourgeois society and political nation." (author's abstract).
Erfasst von	GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften, Mannheim
Update	2013/1