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Title Discourses of tolerance and intolerance in the European Enlightenment / edited by Hans Erich Bödeker, Clorinda Donato, and Peter Hanns Reill
Published Toronto : Published by the University of Toronto Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 257 pages) : illustrations
Series UCLA Center/Clark series ; 8
UCLA Clark Memorial Library series ; 8.
Contents Introduction / Peter Hanns Reill -- Prologue : towards a reconstruction of the discourse on tolerance and intolerance in the age of enlightenment / Han Erich Bödekek -- Toleration and Ragio di Stato : Jews and Protestants in the Savoyard State, ca. 1650-1750 / Geoffrey Symcox -- Locke and the problem of toleration / Richard Ashcraft -- Political parties and the legitimacy of opposition / Terence Ball -- Millenarianism and tolerance / Richard Popkin -- The practice of religious tolerance and intolerance in late eighteenth-century Württemberg / Harmut Lehmann -- Jewish emancipation in France in the eighteenth century / Frances Malino -- The Jewish question in eighteenth-century Germany / David Sorkin -- Discrediting slavery : from the Société des Amis des Noirs to the Haitian revolution : ideological patterns and anthropological discourses / Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink -- The intolerable other / Madelyn Gutwirth -- Masculinity, lunacy, and the sexual deviant / Ann Goldberg -- Extirpation and toleration : villain and whore : some thoughts about the toleration of "social evil" in bourgeois society / Peter Becker
Summary "The idea of tolerance is one of the most enduring legacies of the Enlightenment. However, there is a surprising lack of scholarly works that attempt to analyse the influence of tolerance on the individual during this period. This collection assesses, for the first time, the positive and negative impact of discourses and theories of tolerance upon the lives of individuals in eighteenth-century Europe
Featuring an internationally renowned group of contributors, this volume looks at the concept of tolerance at the point where the individual, or group, converges or clashes with the state. Though it appears to provide grist for the mill of Enlightenment critics such as Adorno, Horkheimer, Foucault, and MacIntyre by confronting specific cases in which individual freedoms are forced to acquiesce to state control and authority in the guise of tolerance, the essays also offer a cautionary tale of critical restraint in the post-9/11 world. By reflecting on similar discrepancies in the interplay of discourses of tolerance and intolerance that inform our own lives, we recognize attempts to craft and apply theories and practices of toleration
With reference to gender preference, racial and social profiling, immigration policies, and the adjudication of borderland cultures and hybrid identities, this collection offers an in-depth examination of Enlightenment society and its parallels in the contemporary world."--Pub. desc
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Includes some text in French
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Subject Toleration -- Europe -- History -- 18th century
Enlightenment.
Toleration.
Discrimination -- Europe -- History -- 18th century
Toleration -- Europe -- History -- 18th century -- Congresses
Enlightenment (18th-century western movement)
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights.
HISTORY -- Europe -- General.
Discrimination
Enlightenment
Social conditions
Toleration
Aufklärung
Toleranz
Intoleranz
Diskriminierung
Verdraagzaamheid.
Onverdraagzaamheid.
Verlichting (cultuurgeschiedenis)
Toleranz.
Intoleranz.
Diskriminierung.
Geistesgeschichte.
Europe -- Social conditions -- 18th century.
Europe
Europa
Europa (geografie)
Europa.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
History
Form Electronic book
Author Bödeker, Hans Erich, editor.
Donato, Clorinda, editor.
Reill, Peter Hanns, editor.
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.
University of California, Los Angeles. Center for 17th- & 18th- Century Studies.
ISBN 9781442687882
1442687886
Other Titles Discourses of tolerance & intolerance