Ideas of 'Race' in the History of the Humanities

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 Were Early Modern Europeans Racist?1

Chapter 3 Formal Analysis: Art and Anthropology

Chapter 4 Max Grunwald and the Formation of Jewish Folkloristics: Another Perspective on Race in German-Speaking Volkskunde

Chapter 5 Racism and Anti-Semitism in the German Political Economy: The Example of Carl Schmitt’s 1936 Berlin Conference “Jewry in Jurisprudence”

Chapter 6 Theogony as Ethnogony: Race and Religion in Friedrich Schelling’s Philosophy of Mythology

Chapter 7 Race and Richard Wagner

Chapter 8 The Concept of Race in Musicological Thought: From General Remarks to a Case Study of So-called Gypsy Music in European Culture

Chapter 9 On Racial Thinking and the Problem of “Oriental” Prehistory

Chapter 10 “Nordics” and “Hamites”: Joseph Deniker and the Rise (and Fall) of Scientific Racism

Chapter 11 Phonocentrism and the Concept of Volk: The Case of Modern China

Chapter 12 “The Creation of a Frustrated People”: Race, Education, the Teaching of History and South African Historiography in the Apartheid Era