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Hegel and Race

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Isn't Phrenology the Racist Science Par Excellence?

Phenomenology is a demolition of phrenology. Phrenology tries to root racial difference in the very nature of the shape of the brain. It's physiognomy, right? Like this is right, right, right. What is it, the Miller in Chaucer? He's got a mole, he's got a red hair coming out of a mole, so it's the better guy. Right, yeah, right,Right. But I think you're right that he should have gotten it and he got it in the sciences, but he didn't get it in the pre-sociological accounts of Africa. That's the thing that's troubling.

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