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Mere Civility - Disagreement and the Limits of Toleration (Paperback)
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Mere Civility - Disagreement and the Limits of Toleration (Paperback)
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Loot Price R561
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A New Statesman Best Book of the Year A Church Times Book of the
Year We are facing a crisis of civility, a war of words polluting
our public sphere. In liberal democracies committed to tolerating
active, often heated disagreement, the loss of this virtue appears
critical. Most modern appeals to civility follow arguments by
Hobbes or Locke by proposing to suppress disagreement or exclude
views we deem "uncivil" for the sake of social harmony. By
comparison, mere civility-a grudging conformity to norms of
respectful behavior-as defended by Rhode Island's founder, Roger
Williams, might seem minimal and unappealing. Yet Teresa Bejan
argues that Williams's outlook offers a promising path forward in
confronting our own crisis, one that challenges our fundamental
assumptions about what a tolerant-and civil-society should look
like. "Penetrating and sophisticated." -James Ryerson, New York
Times Book Review "Would that more of us might learn to look into
the past with such gravity and humility. We might end up with a
more (or mere) civil society, yet." -Los Angeles Review of Books "A
deeply admirable book: original, persuasive, witty, and eloquent."
-Jacob T. Levy, Review of Politics "A terrific book-learned,
vigorous, and challenging." -Alison McQueen, Stanford University
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