Share This Paper. Background Citations. Citation Type. Has PDF. Publication Type. More Filters. The race concept: A defense. It is argued against critics that the concept of race is well-formed.
View 2 excerpts, cites background. Race: a social destruction of a biological concept. It is nowadays a dominant opinion in a number of disciplines anthropology, genetics, psychology, philosophy of science that the taxonomy of human races does not make much biological sense.
My aim … Expand. If forexample, Santa Claus exists, it is very likely that someone wouldhave spotted him by now. That no one has, thus, should beconsidered evidence that Santa Claus does not exist.
Likewise,Levin states "evidence for the equal intelligence of the raceswould presumably exist were the races in fact equal, and beprominently cited by the many social scientists who passionatelybelieve they are.
Thecase against racial equality presented by Levin is devastating tothe egalitarian cause. In the latter part of the book, Levindiscusses other topics including values, crime, justice, andaffirmative action. It is a fascinating read that would bedifficult to summarize briefly. If youenjoyed the Bell Curve, this book is a must-read. This is the most rigorous, comprehensive treatment of racedifferences ever published. Philosopher Michael Levin's classicwork first appeared in but quickly went out of print.
New Century Foundation has nowpublished a completely reset, corrected edition, with a foreword byJared Taylor. Anyone with an interest in race and the courage tofollow the scientific data wherever they lead will find a goldmineof information, analysis, and wisdom in this classic treatment ofone of the most profoundly importantmdash;and taboomdash;subjectsof our time.
Experts in the field have lavished praise on Why RaceMatters: Professor Michael Levin's analytical tour de force,remarkably engrossing, often exciting, differs uniquely from otherbooks dealing with racial differences. Levin views the variouscomplex arguments regarding the reality and nature of race and racedifferences, not from any of the typical specialized viewpoints ofanthropology, education, evolution, genetics, psychology, orsociology, or from any social or political ideology, but from thesweeping vantage point of the philosophy of science, his specialtyas a well-recognized professor of philosophy.
Levin's impressivetechnical mastery of the vast empirical subject matter is evincedin his book's amazingly broad and detailed scope and analyticaldepth. But what I consider the most valuable and exciting featureof Levin's treatment of every facet of the race issue is theconsistent critical stance his incisive intellect brings to everyaspect, based entirely on his keen understanding of the philosophyof science.
It is definitely a "must read" for all serious studentsof this subject. Prisoners may build their muscles in well-equipped gyms, so they can come out as more frightening specimens than when they went in. Connubial visits are permitted, so sex is not a problem and prison authorities allow dominant prisoners with perverse appetites unlimited homosexual rape. The expansion of entitlements across the board has swept away the deterrent power of prisons.
In response to that, he proposes that we abolish prisons in favor of other punishments, including public torture in the form of either whippings or electrical shocks and fines. And for those too poor to pay the fines, he suggests what amounts to the enslavement of criminals by their victims until they have worked off their sentence. He returned to speak on topics relating to race several times, most recently in In , he and several other Jewish participants ended their affiliation with the white supremacist publication and conference after tensions with a growing contingent of anti-Semitic attendees finally erupted.
Nor is American Renaissance the only white supremacist organization Levin has worked with. He has also enjoyed a longstanding relationship with the far-right libertarian Ludwig von Mises Institute. While acknowledging the reality and horror of Nazi atrocities, Levin rejects any association between racism and Nazism. Levin and Steven Farron, the author of the manuscript under review, arrive at that conclusion by insisting that, far from seeing the Jewish population as inferior or subhuman, Nazis viewed Jews as superior to Aryans.
The superiority of Jews to non-Jewish Germans was a threat the idea of racial egalitarianism that Levin insists Hitler was committed to.
Jews thus needed to be made less exceptional, at first through dispossession of property and rights and eventually through genocide. Of course, this view of history is laughable, or at least it would be were the topic less serious. He argues that present-day policies like welfare or affirmative action are functionally equivalent to Nazi policies towards Aryans, putting white Americans especially men in the role of German Jews in the s.
In response, Levin filed a lawsuit against the university and the dean, asking a judge to enjoin CUNY from taking any action against him in response to his writings, as doing so was a violation of his academic freedom. Levin won the suit, at least in part because the investigation determined that he had kept his racist views separate from his teaching. In the essay, which was published in , Levin puts the City College student body at 73 percent black or Puerto Rican.
Levin sees the majority of his own students as being, by virtue of their race, too stupid to succeed.
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