Susanne Lettow teaches philosophy at the University of Paderborn, Germany.

• IntroductionSusanne Lettow Part I. Reproduction and the Early Life Sciences 1. Generation, Genealogy, and Time: The Concept of Reproduction from Histoire naturelle to NaturphilosophieSusanne Lettow2. Organic Molecules, Parasites, Urthiere: The Controversial Nature of Spermatic Animals, 1749–1841Florence Vienne3. The Scientific Construction of Gender and Generation in the German Late Enlightenment and in German Romantic NaturphilosophiePeter Hanns Reill4. Zeugungl Fortpflanzung: Distinctions of Medium in the Discourse on Generation around 1800Jocelyn Holland5. Treviranus’ Biology: Generation, Degeneration, and the Boundaries of LifeJoan SteigerwaldPart II. Articulations of Race and Gender 6. Skin Color and the Origin of Physical Anthropology (1640–1850)Renato G. Mazzolini7. The Caucasian Slave Race: Beautiful Circassians and the Hybrid Origin of European IdentitySara Figal8. Analogy of Analogy: Animals and Slaves in Mary Wollstonecraft’s Defense of Women’s RightsPenelope Deutscher9. Reproducing Difference: Race and Heredity from a longue durée PerspectiveStaffan Müller-Wille10. Heredity and Hybridity in the Natural History of Kant, Girtanner, and Schelling during the 1790sRobert Bernasconi11. Sexual Polarity in Schelling and HegelAlison StoneAbout the ContributorsIndex

"The editor declares that the co-emergence of concepts of race and gender in the period here examined was not just a question of simultaneity, noting that rarely have they been examined in relation to each other. This prompts us to expect that the contributions will focus on this interrelation. But not all of the contributions address this concern, remaining content to develop interesting new aspects of one or the other of these concepts in isolation from the other. For all that, we are indebted to the contributors for taking up the difficult challenge the subject presents." — Isis"This collection contributes to an increasingly important issue in philosophy and the history of ideas, examining the emergence of the interrelated discourses of reproduction, 'race' and gender." — Radical Philosophy

Susanne Lettow teaches philosophy at the University of Paderborn, Germany.

• IntroductionSusanne Lettow Part I. Reproduction and the Early Life Sciences 1. Generation, Genealogy, and Time: The Concept of Reproduction from Histoire naturelle to NaturphilosophieSusanne Lettow2. Organic Molecules, Parasites, Urthiere: The Controversial Nature of Spermatic Animals, 1749–1841Florence Vienne3. The Scientific Construction of Gender and Generation in the German Late Enlightenment and in German Romantic NaturphilosophiePeter Hanns Reill4. Zeugungl Fortpflanzung: Distinctions of Medium in the Discourse on Generation around 1800Jocelyn Holland5. Treviranus’ Biology: Generation, Degeneration, and the Boundaries of LifeJoan SteigerwaldPart II. Articulations of Race and Gender 6. Skin Color and the Origin of Physical Anthropology (1640–1850)Renato G. Mazzolini7. The Caucasian Slave Race: Beautiful Circassians and the Hybrid Origin of European IdentitySara Figal8. Analogy of Analogy: Animals and Slaves in Mary Wollstonecraft’s Defense of Women’s RightsPenelope Deutscher9. Reproducing Difference: Race and Heredity from a longue durée PerspectiveStaffan Müller-Wille10. Heredity and Hybridity in the Natural History of Kant, Girtanner, and Schelling during the 1790sRobert Bernasconi11. Sexual Polarity in Schelling and HegelAlison StoneAbout the ContributorsIndex

"The editor declares that the co-emergence of concepts of race and gender in the period here examined was not just a question of simultaneity, noting that rarely have they been examined in relation to each other. This prompts us to expect that the contributions will focus on this interrelation. But not all of the contributions address this concern, remaining content to develop interesting new aspects of one or the other of these concepts in isolation from the other. For all that, we are indebted to the contributors for taking up the difficult challenge the subject presents." — Isis"This collection contributes to an increasingly important issue in philosophy and the history of ideas, examining the emergence of the interrelated discourses of reproduction, 'race' and gender." — Radical Philosophy

Susanne Lettow teaches philosophy at the University of Paderborn, Germany.

• IntroductionSusanne Lettow Part I. Reproduction and the Early Life Sciences 1. Generation, Genealogy, and Time: The Concept of Reproduction from Histoire naturelle to NaturphilosophieSusanne Lettow2. Organic Molecules, Parasites, Urthiere: The Controversial Nature of Spermatic Animals, 1749–1841Florence Vienne3. The Scientific Construction of Gender and Generation in the German Late Enlightenment and in German Romantic NaturphilosophiePeter Hanns Reill4. Zeugungl Fortpflanzung: Distinctions of Medium in the Discourse on Generation around 1800Jocelyn Holland5. Treviranus’ Biology: Generation, Degeneration, and the Boundaries of LifeJoan SteigerwaldPart II. Articulations of Race and Gender 6. Skin Color and the Origin of Physical Anthropology (1640–1850)Renato G. Mazzolini7. The Caucasian Slave Race: Beautiful Circassians and the Hybrid Origin of European IdentitySara Figal8. Analogy of Analogy: Animals and Slaves in Mary Wollstonecraft’s Defense of Women’s RightsPenelope Deutscher9. Reproducing Difference: Race and Heredity from a longue durée PerspectiveStaffan Müller-Wille10. Heredity and Hybridity in the Natural History of Kant, Girtanner, and Schelling during the 1790sRobert Bernasconi11. Sexual Polarity in Schelling and HegelAlison StoneAbout the ContributorsIndex

"The editor declares that the co-emergence of concepts of race and gender in the period here examined was not just a question of simultaneity, noting that rarely have they been examined in relation to each other. This prompts us to expect that the contributions will focus on this interrelation. But not all of the contributions address this concern, remaining content to develop interesting new aspects of one or the other of these concepts in isolation from the other. For all that, we are indebted to the contributors for taking up the difficult challenge the subject presents." — Isis"This collection contributes to an increasingly important issue in philosophy and the history of ideas, examining the emergence of the interrelated discourses of reproduction, 'race' and gender." — Radical Philosophy