Tony Lack
PhD University of Pittsburgh. Research interests include phenomenology, the experience of time and temporality, conceptual history, classical studies, Buddhism, architecture, philosophy, literature, and the arts. Currently Associate Professor of Humanities at Northeast Lakeview College, San Antonio, Texas.
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A carefully documented intellectual history that describes and explains the emergence of biopolitics in eighteenth-century France. Nelson acknowledges that the Enlightenment was a movement promoting reason, science, equality, rights, and liberty, but points out that it also generated systems of exclusion, inequality, and institutionalized racism. He identifies two strains of Enlightenment biopolitics. The inclusive approach involved improving the race, population, nation, or species through the application of techniques based on animal husbandry, such as cross breeding and selective breeding. Conversely, the exclusive approach emphasized segregating and separating designated racial and ethnic populations to prevent them from mixing. Nelson begins with ideas emerging around 1750, before the term eugenics was coined by Sir Francis Galton in 1883.