Re: "enlightenment"

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, Max Dashu <maxdashu@...> wrote:

>
> >But colonial empires, totalitarianism, the Panoptic
> >state, etc are also fruits of the Enlightenment, as is
> >Linguistics
>
> We can especially note that it was in the Enlightenment that
> racialist ideologies were systematized. Thinking here of Linnaeus'
> classification of races into superior and inferior,

He did?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carolus_Linnaeus
I can't find that here?

> various trees of "Man" along same lines,
> Gobineau, and much more.

Gobineau is 19th century, too late to be Enlightenment.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_de_Gobineau


Torsten