Tag: Georg Forster

  • Kant’s Race Theory, Forster’s Counter, and the Metaphysics of Color The Eighteenth Century Volume 53, Number 4, Winter 2012 pages 393-412 DOI: 10.1353/ecy.2012.0032 Sally Hatch Gray, Assistant Professor of German Mississippi State University This article argues for an understanding of Kant’s race theory as an integral part of his idea of nature and of humans…

  • Ape to Apollo: Aesthetics and the Idea of Race in the 18th Century Cornell University Press 2002 264 pages 6 x 9, 12 color illustrations, 65 halftones ISBN: 978-0-8014-4085-4 David Bindman, Emeritus Professor of the History of Art University College London Ape to Apollo is the first book to follow the development in the eighteenth…