Tolerance the beacon of the Enlightenment
"Inspired by Voltaire's advice that a text needs to be concise to have real influence, this anthology contains fiery extracts by forty eighteenth-century authors, from the most famous philosophers of the age to those whose brilliant writings are less well-known. These passages are immensel...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
Open Book Publishers
2016, [2016]©2016
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| Series: | Open Book classics series
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| Collection: | JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | "Inspired by Voltaire's advice that a text needs to be concise to have real influence, this anthology contains fiery extracts by forty eighteenth-century authors, from the most famous philosophers of the age to those whose brilliant writings are less well-known. These passages are immensely diverse in style and topic, but all have in common a passionate commitment to equality, freedom, and tolerance. Each text resonates powerfully with the issues our world faces today. Tolerance was first published by the Société française d'étude du dix-huitième siècle (the French Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies) in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo assassinations in January 2015 as an act of solidarity and as a response to the surge of interest in Enlightenment values. With the support of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, it has now been translated by over 100 students and tutors of French at Oxford University."--Publisher's website |
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| Item Description: | Statement of responsibility is transcribed exactly as found on the title page. - A link to the original French edition of this book is available from the publisher's Web site: Tolerance: le combat des Lumières. Paris : Société française d'étude du dix-huitième siècle, 2015 |
| Physical Description: | viii, 136 pages illustrations (some color) |
| ISBN: | 1783742054 9781783742035 1783742046 1783742062 1783742038 9781783742042 1783742070 |