Toleration in Enlightenment Europe Paperback / softback
Edited by Ole Peter (University of Cambridge) Grell, Roy (Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine, London) Porter
Paperback / softback
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The Enlightenment is often seen as the great age of religious and intellectual toleration, and this 1999 volume is a systematic European survey of the theory, practice, and very real limits to toleration in eighteenth-century Europe.
A distinguished international team of contributors demonstrate how the publicists of the European Enlightenment developed earlier ideas about toleration, gradually widening the desire for religious toleration into a philosophy of freedom seen as a fundamental attribute and a precondition for a civilized society.
Nonetheless Europe never uniformly or comprehensively embraced toleration during the eighteenth century: although religious toleration was central to the Enlightenment project, advances in toleration were often fragile and short-lived.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:284 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:23/11/2006
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- ISBN:9780521032162
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:284 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:23/11/2006
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521032162
