Gobineau

Gobineau is a notorious name, but how many students of European thought today, even among us Africans, recall that several of the most revered names in European philosophy - Hegel, Locke,

Wole Soyinka - Nobel Lecture 1986

But her passion and wildness overwhelmed the more modest presences of Catherine Wethington as Monica, Baba's daughter and accomplice, and of John Danley, Katherina Acosta and Lillian Blotkamp as Mr. and Mrs. Gobineau and Mrs. Nolan, all of whom could have made more of their pathetic longings as they hoped to make contact with the spirits of their dead children.

PERFORMING ARTS 2011

Joseph Arthur Comte de Gobineau, a French diplomat, philosopher and historian argued in his hugely influential Essay on the Inequality of Human Races that Adam from the Bible was the "originator of our white species."

Rajiv Malhotra: How Europeans Misappropriated Sanskrit To Form The Aryan Race Theory Rajiv Malhotra 2011

Anthropologist Kenneth Kennedy concludes of Gobineau and Chamberlain, that they "transformed the Aryan concept, which had its humble origins in philological research conducted by Jones in Calcutta at the end of the eighteenth century, into the politics and racial doctrines of Adolph Hitler's Third Reich."

Rajiv Malhotra: How Europeans Misappropriated Sanskrit To Form The Aryan Race Theory Rajiv Malhotra 2011

Anthropologist Kenneth Kennedy concludes of Gobineau and Chamberlain, that they "transformed the Aryan concept, which had its humble origins in philological research conducted by Jones in Calcutta at the end of the eighteenth century, into the politics and racial doctrines of Adolph Hitler's Third Reich."

Rajiv Malhotra: How Europeans Misappropriated Sanskrit To Form The Aryan Race Theory Rajiv Malhotra 2011

I fail to see just what moral difference exists between the Comte de Gobineau and Mr. Harry F. Blackmun.

Matthew Yglesias » Too Hot for CBS 2010

I fail to see just what moral difference exists between the Comte de Gobineau and Mr. Harry F. Blackmun

Matthew Yglesias » Too Hot for CBS 2010

While my Kindler Kindled incidentally, without doing any annotating at all, I put a question mark next to a reference to De Gobineau that I needed to look up and underlined this lovely simile: "And the years folded up like pocket handkerchiefs," among countless other markings.

Pamela Newton: The Achilles Heel of the Kindle Pamela Newton 2011

January 30th, 2010 at 8: 39 pm and of course I realize the comparison of Blackmun to de Gobineau was hyperbolic, but I just wanted to make a point about what I consider to be a misguided effort on the part of some pro-lifers to villify Blackmun

Matthew Yglesias » Too Hot for CBS 2010

While my Kindler Kindled incidentally, without doing any annotating at all, I put a question mark next to a reference to De Gobineau that I needed to look up and underlined this lovely simile: "And the years folded up like pocket handkerchiefs," among countless other markings.

Pamela Newton: The Achilles Heel of the Kindle Pamela Newton 2011