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The Limits of Tolerance - Enlightenment Values and Religious Fanaticism (Paperback)
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The Limits of Tolerance - Enlightenment Values and Religious Fanaticism (Paperback)
Series: Religion, Culture, and Public Life, 38
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The modern notion of tolerance—the welcoming of diversity as a
force for the common good—emerged in the Enlightenment in the
wake of centuries of religious wars. First elaborated by
philosophers such as John Locke and Voltaire, religious tolerance
gradually gained ground in Europe and North America. But with the
resurgence of fanaticism and terrorism, religious tolerance is
increasingly being challenged by frightened publics. In this book,
Denis Lacorne traces the emergence of the modern notion of
religious tolerance in order to rethink how we should respond to
its contemporary tensions. In a wide-ranging argument that spans
the Ottoman Empire, the Venetian republic, and recent controversies
such as France’s burqa ban and the white-supremacist rally in
Charlottesville, The Limits of Tolerance probes crucial questions:
Should we impose limits on freedom of expression in the name of
human dignity or decency? Should we accept religious symbols in the
public square? Can we tolerate the intolerant? While acknowledging
that tolerance can never be entirely without limits, Lacorne
defends the Enlightenment concept against recent attempts to
circumscribe it, arguing that without it a pluralistic society
cannot survive. Awarded the Prix Montyon by the Académie
Française, The Limits of Tolerance is a powerful reflection on
twenty-first-century democracy’s most fundamental challenges.
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