Toleration in Enlightenment Europe
Cambridge University Press, 12/2/1999
EAN 9780521651967, ISBN10: 0521651964
Hardcover, 282 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.9 cm
Language: English
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.
List of contributors
Preface
1. Toleration in Enlightenment Europe Ole Peter Grell and Roy Porter
2. Toleration and the Enlightenment movement Martin Fitzpatrick
3. Multiculturalism and ethnic cleansing in the Enlightenment Robert Wokler
4. Intolerance, the virtue of Princes and Radicals Sylvana Tomaselli
5. Spinoza, Locke and the Enlightenment battle for toleration Jonathan I. Israel
6. Toleration and Enlightenment in the Dutch Republic Ernestine van der Wall
7. Toleration and citizenship in Enlightenment England
John Toland and the naturalisation of the Jews, 1714–53 Justin Champion
8. Citizenship and religious toleration in France Marisa Linton
9. A tolerant society? Religious toleration in the Holy Roman Empire, 1648–1806 Joachim Whaley
10. Enlightenment in the Habsburg Monarchy
history of a belated and short-lived phenomenon Karl Vocelka
11. Toleration in Eastern Europe
the dissident question in eighteenth-century Poland-Lithuania Michael G. Müller
12. Toleration in Enlightenment Italy Nicholas Davidson
13. Inquisition, tolerance and liberty in eighteenth-century Spain Henry Kamen
Index.