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Intolerance - Premodern Roots and Modern Manifestations (Hardcover)
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Intolerance - Premodern Roots and Modern Manifestations (Hardcover)
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Intolerance of ideas different from one's own seems to be a common
attitude among human beings and, at the same time, something that
seems to be more pronounced in recent years. In this volume,
political theorists and philosophers consider some of the
historical preconditions of modern intolerance and debate the
sources of its recent manifestations. From theories of religious
intolerance during the Reformation to the contemporary suppression
of religious symbols; from homophobia to attempts to ban it; from
populism on the right to "cancel culture" on the left-this book
covers a variety of forms of intolerance, analysing not only its
consequences but its causes and implications. Some of the chapters
suggest means by which democracies may, through popular and
judicial measures, defend themselves against intolerance, while
others probe the philosophical grounding of intolerance in
epistemological and metaphysical doctrines such as self-evident
truth, divine revelation, inner illumination, naive realism, and
the moral relativism attributed to analytic philosophy and
postmodernism. The chapters in this book were originally published
as a special issue of Critical Review.
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