1st Edition

Intolerance Premodern Roots and Modern Manifestations

Edited By Jeffrey Friedman Copyright 2023
174 Pages
by Routledge

174 Pages
by Routledge

174 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more

Introduction: Intolerance, Power, and Epistemology

Jeffrey Friedman

1. Consequences, Conscience, and Fallibility: Early Modern Roots of Toleration

Arash Abizadeh

2. Marx and Romanticism

Warren Breckman

3. Early Modern Epistemologies and Religious Intolerance

Shterna Friedman

4. Citizens as Militant Democrats, Or: Just How Intolerant Should the People Be?

Jan- Werner Müller

5. Philosophical Foundations of Contemporary Intolerance: Why We No Longer Take Martin Luther King, Jr. Seriously

Aaron Preston

6. Who Is Intolerant? The Clash Between LGBTQ+ Rights and Religious Free Exercise

Rogers M. Smith

Biography

Jeffrey Friedman, the editor of Critical Review, is a visiting scholar in the Social Studies program at Harvard University, USA. He has taught political theory at Barnard College, Columbia University, Dartmouth College, Harvard University, and Yale University, and is the author of Power Without Knowledge: A Critique of Technocracy (2019).