Discourses of tolerance and intolerance in the European Enlightenment
by Bödeker, Hans Erich, University of California, Los Angeles., Center for 17th- & 18th- Century Studies, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, Reill, Peter Hanns, Donato, Clorinda
fromUCLA Clark Memorial Library series
"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 pos…
"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 pos…
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A comprehensive history of the creation of the modern Western mind recounts how crises in religious authority and the scientific revolution led to medical, literary and philosophical questions about the nature of human inner life. --Publisher
Introduction / John Coffey and Alister Chapman -- Can we "see things their way"? : should we try? / Brad S. Gregory -- Quentin Skinner and the religious dimension of early modern political thought / John Coffey -- "Sie stinken beide", or how to use medieval Christian-Jewish disp…
"While religious history and intellectual history are both active, dynamic fields of contemporary historical inquiry, historians of ideas and historians of religion have too often paid little attention to one another's work. The intellectual historian Quentin Skinner urged schol…
