Arthur de gobineau biography books

Joseph Arthur Comte de Gobineau (July 14, 1816 - October 13, 1882) was a Frencharistocrat, writer, diplomat, and social thinker. He became infamous for advocating developing the racist theory of the Aryan master race, in his book, An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races (1853-1855). Gobineau approached his work from a scholarly viewpoint, trying to understand the course of human history and the factors involved in the development of civilizations. He concluded that race was the single most important factor determining the nature of human society, with the white race being responsible for all the great advances in history. He saw the barriers between the races as natural, having existed from the beginning of human history, and that breaking them down through miscegenation would lead to the destruction of civilization. Unfortunately, his ideas were taken and abused by Nazism, leading to genocide against the Jews and World War II.

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Books by Arthur de Gobineau

The Inequality of Human Races
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3.28 avg rating — 159 ratings — published 1854 — 168 editions

Nouvelles asiatiques (La Collection)
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3.42 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 1876 — 76 editions

Gobineau: Selected Political Writings
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 14 ratings — 3 editions

Les Pléiades
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3.62 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1874 — 31 editions

The World of the Persians
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3.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1971 — 5 editions

Les amants dem Kandahar (La Petite Collection)
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3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2011 — 6 editions

Mademoiselle Irnois
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3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2014 — 3 editions

سه سال در آسیا: سفرنامه کنت دوگبینو
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 1859

Adélaïde
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Arthur de Gobineau

French diplomat and writer (1816–1882)

Joseph Arthur de Gobineau (French:[ɡɔbino]; 14 July 1816 – 13 October 1882) was a French writer and diplomat who is best known for helping introduce scientific race theory and "racial demography", and for developing the theory of the Aryanmaster race and Nordicism. He was an elitist who, in the immediate aftermath of the Revolutions of 1848, wrote An Essay on the Inequality of the Human Races. In it he argued that aristocrats were superior to commoners and that aristocrats possessed more Aryan genetic traits because of less interbreeding with inferior races.

Gobineau was born to an aristocratic family of counts under the Ancien Régime. He was ideologically a Legitimist who supported royalist rule by the House of Bourbon and opposed the French Revolution, democracy, and rule by the House of Orléans which came to power after the 1830 July Revolution. He began his diplomatic career in the late 1840s, and begi