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Discourses of Tolerance and Intolerance in the European Enlightenment

22 Dec 2008

The principle of tolerance is one of the most enduring legacies of the Enlightenment. However, scholarly works on the topic to date have been primarily limited to traditional studies based on a historical, 'progressive' view or to the critiques of contemporary writers such as Adorno, Horkheimer, Foucault, and MacIntyre, who believed that the core beliefs of the Enlightenment, including tolerance, could actually be used as vehicles of repression and control rather than as agents promoting individual and group freedom.This collection of original essays by a distinguished international group of contributors looks at the subject in a new light and from a number of angles, focusing on the concept of tolerance at the point where the individual, or group, converges or clashes with the state.

The volume opens with introductory essays that provide essential background to the major shift in thinking in regard to tolerance that occurred during the eighteenth century, while considering the general problem of writing a history of tolerance. The remaining essays, organized around two central themes, trace the expansion of the discourses of tolerance and intolerance. The first group treats tolerance and intolerance in relation to the spheres of religious and political thought and practice. The second examines the extension of broad issues of tolerance and intolerance in the realms of race, gender, deviancy, and criminality. While offering an in-depth consideration of these complex issues in the context of the Enlightenment, the volume sheds light on many similar challenges facing contemporary society.

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Authors

Hans-Erich Bödeker, Hans Erich Bödeker, Clorinda Donato, Peter Reill

Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
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CaOOCEL
Dewey Decimal Classification Number
323.094/09033
Dewey Decimal Edition Number
22
General Note
Essays presented as part of a conference sponsored and organized by the UCLA Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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ISBN
9780802091789 9781442687882
LCCN
B802
LCCN Item number
D48 2008eb
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CaOONL
Physical Description | Extent
1 electronic text (xii, 257 p.)
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Canada
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Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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(CaBNVSL)slc00224302 (OCoLC)647920871 (CaOOCEL)430762
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Mode of access: World Wide Web
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CaOONL

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