Paradoxes of Religious Toleration in Early Modern Political Thought (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Villaverde, Maria Jose; Laursen, John Christian

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In today's developed world, much of what people believe about religious toleration has evolved from crucial innovations in toleration theory developed in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Thinkers from that period have been rightly celebrated for creating influential, liberating concepts and ideas that have enabled many of us to live in peace. However, their work was certainly not perfect. In this enlightening volume, John Christian Laursen and María José Villaverde have gathered contributors to focus on the paradoxes, blindspots, unexpected flaws, or ambiguities in early modern toleration theories and practices. Each chapter explores the complexities, complications, and inconsistencies that came up in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries as people grappled with the idea of toleration. In understanding the weaknesses, contradictions, and ambivalences in other theories, they hope to provoke thought about the defects in ways of thinking about toleration in order to help in overcoming similar problems in contemporary toleration theories.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 230
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780739172186
• Artikelnr.: 37820462

Autorenporträt

John Christian Laursen is professor of political science at the University of California, Riverside. María José Villaverde is professor of political science at the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Paradoxes of Toleration in Early Modern Political Thought
John Christian Laursen and María José Villaverde Chapter 1: Spinoza's
Paradoxes: An Atheist who Defended the Scriptures? A Freethinking
Alchemist? María José Villaverde Chapter 2: Spinoza on Lying for Toleration
and his Intolerance of Atheists John Christian Laursen Chapter 3: Jansenist
Fears and Huguenot Polemics: Arnauld, Jurieu, and Bayle on Obedience and
Toleration Luisa Simonutti Chapter 4: 'The general freedom, which all men
enjoy' in a Confessional State: The Paradoxical Language of Politics in the
Dutch Republic (1700-1750) Henri Krop Chapter 5: A Leibnizian Way to
Tolerance: Between Ethical Universalism and Linguistic Diversity Concha
Roldán Chapter 6: Toleration in China and Siam in Late Seventeenth Century
European Travel Literature Rolando Minuti Chapter 7: Toleration in Denis
Veiras's Theocracy Cyrus Masroori Chapter 8: David Hume on Religious
Tolerance Gerardo López Sastre Chapter 9: Rousseau, A False Apostle of
Tolerance María José Villaverde Chapter 10: Intolerance of Fanatics in
Bayle, Hume, and Kant John Christian Laursen Chapter 11: Tolerance and
Intolerance in the Writings of the French Antiphilosophes (1750-1789)
Jonathan Israel Chapter 12: Immanuel Kant: Tolerance Seen As Respect
Joaquín Abellán