Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Introduction -- Prologue: Towards a Reconstruction of the Discourse on Tolerance and Intolerance in the Age of Enlightenment -- 1 Toleration and Ragion di Stato: Jews and Protestants in the Savoyard State, ca. 1650-1750 -- 2 Locke and the Problem of Toleration -- 3 Political Parties and the Legitimacy of Opposition -- 4 Millenarianism and Tolerance -- 5 The Practice of Religious Tolerance and Intolerance in Late Eighteenth-Century Württemberg -- 6 Jewish Emancipation in France in the Eighteenth Century -- 7 The Jewish Question in Eighteenth-Century Germany -- 8 Discrediting Slavery: From the Société des Amis des Noirs to the Haitian Revolution -- Ideological Patterns and Anthropological Discourses -- 9 The Intolerable Other -- 10 Masculinity, Lunacy, and the Sexual Deviant -- 11 Extirpation and Toleration: Villain and Whore -- Some Thoughts about the Toleration of 'Social Evil' in Bourgeois Society -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z
Summary
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