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Mere Civility - Disagreement and the Limits of Toleration (Hardcover)
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Mere Civility - Disagreement and the Limits of Toleration (Hardcover)
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Today, politicians and intellectuals warn that we face a crisis of
civility and a veritable war of words polluting our public sphere.
In liberal democracies committed to tolerating diversity as well as
active, often heated disagreement, the loss of this conversational
virtue appears critical. But is civility really a virtue? Or is it,
as critics claim, a covert demand for conformity that silences
dissent? Mere Civility sheds light on our predicament and the
impasse between "civilitarians" and their opponents by examining
early modern debates about religious toleration. As concerns about
uncivil disagreement achieved new prominence after the Reformation,
seventeenth-century figures as different as Roger Williams, Thomas
Hobbes, and John Locke could agree that some restraint on the war
of words would be necessary. But they recognized that the
prosecution of incivility was often difficult to distinguish from
persecution. In their efforts to reconcile diversity with
disagreement, they developed competing conceptions of civility as
the social bond of tolerant societies that still resonate. Most
modern appeals to civility follow either Hobbes or Locke by
proposing to suppress disagreement or exclude persons and positions
deemed "uncivil" for the sake of social concord. Compared with his
contemporaries' more robust ideals, Williams's unabashedly mere
civility-a minimal, occasionally contemptuous adherence to
culturally contingent rules of respectful behavior-is easily
overlooked. Yet Teresa Bejan argues that Williams offers a
promising path forward in confronting our own crisis of civility,
one that fundamentally challenges our assumptions about what a
tolerant-and civil-society should look like.
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