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Author Creppell, Ingrid

Title Toleration and identity : foundations in early modern thought / Ingrid Creppell
Published New York : Routledge, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 212 pages)
Contents Introduction : basic reconceptions -- Language and identity : making toleration a norm -- Bodin and the state : structuring a political self -- Montaigne and the body : self-reflection in time -- Locke and society : boundaries of recognition -- Defoe and the individual : forms of public judgment -- Rebuilding toleration
Summary Recently, there has been a notable rise in interest in the idea of ""toleration"", a rise that Ingrid Creppell argues comes more from distressing political developments than positive ones, and almost all of them are related to issues of identity: rampant genocide in the 20th Century, the resurgence of religious fundamentalism around the world; and ethnic-religious wars in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. In Toleration and Identity, Creppell argues that a contemporary ethic of toleration must include recognition of identity issues, and that the traditional liberal ideal of toleratio
Notes Introduction : basic reconceptions -- Language and identity : making toleration a norm -- Bodin and the state : structuring a political self -- Montaigne and the body : self-reflection in time -- Locke and society : boundaries of recognition -- Defoe and the individual : forms of public judgment -- Rebuilding toleration
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-206) and index
Notes English
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Subject Toleration.
Group identity.
Social conflict.
Social Identification
group identity.
social conflict.
SELF-HELP -- Personal Growth -- Happiness.
Group identity
Social conflict
Toleration
Philosophie
Toleranz
Filosofie.
Verdraagzaamheid.
Identiteit.
Geschichte 1600-1700.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2002073983
ISBN 9781136061387
113606138X
9780203616451
0203616456
9780203616451
1283886731
9781283886734