Arthur de gobineau biography of michael
Joseph Arthur de Gobineau was a French writer and diplomat who is best known for helping introduce scientific race theory and "racial demography"....
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Social thinking of Arthur de Gobineau
The French aristocrat Arthur de Gobineau developed a set of ideas that were influential during his life and some of them that impacted later social thinkers, such politicians, anthropologists, and sociologists.
While still alive, he was a major influence on "Gobinism", also known as Gobineauism, an academic, political and social movement formed in 19th-century Germany.[1] An ethnically pro-Germanic, anti-national and particularly anti-French ideology,[2] the movement influenced German nationalists and intellectuals such as Richard Wagner, Friedrich Nietzsche[3] and the precursor of Zionism, Moses Hess.[4]
Racial theories
Shocked by the Revolution of 1848, Gobineau first expressed his racial theories in his 1848 epic poem Manfredine.
In it he revealed his fear of the revolution being the beginning of the end of aristocratic Europe, with common folk descended from lesser breeds taking over. The poe