BOOK REVIEW: ed. Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze.<b>RACE AND THE ENLIGHTENMENT: A READER</b>. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1997.

Abstract

In compiling this useful anthology, Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze's starting point was the realization that writing about race formed an important but neglected aspect of Enlightenment thought. Certainly within philosophy (Eze's own discipline), work on writers such as Kant and Hegel has mushroomed in recent years, often becoming--as with Foucault and Habermas's exchanges about Kant--central to key debates about the significance of the Enlightenment, without much, if any, attention being paid to the rather extensive consideration that those philosophers gave to matters of race.