Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-223) and index.
Descartes' fundamental mind-body problem : the question of sex -- The distinct origins of mind and body -- The disposition of the blood and the sexual generation of the union -- The racial legacy of a genealogical mind-body dualism -- A thing not-yet human : Bonnet's problem of the egg -- Leibniz's history of mind and body -- The not-yet human : Bonnet's history of the mind-body union -- A problem of the egg -- "All races will be extinguished ... only not that of the whites" : a mind-body problem in the Kantian tradition -- Racial mind-body unions -- The overturning of the mind-body problem -- Solutions and experts.
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Demonstrates the profound overlap of philosophy's mind-body problem and various racist doctrines found in thinkers ranging from Descartes to Kant.