Text

Tolerance : The Beacon of the Enlightenment

---

This anthology, inspired by Voltaire’s advice that a text needed to be concise to have real influence, contains firey extracts from forty different authors, from the philosophers everyone’s heard of to those whose brilliant writings are less well-known. They are immensely diverse in style and topic, but all have in common their passionate commitment to equality, freedom, and tolerance, and every single one resonates powerfully with the issues our world faces today. The book 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 a mark of solidarity, and as a response to the wide-spread interest in Enlightenment values. With the support of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, it has now been translated by 102 French students and tutors from Oxford University.

---

Availability

No copy data

Detail Information

Series Title

-

Call Number

100 TOL

Publisher

Cambridge : Open Book Publishers., 2016

Collation

-

Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

978-1-78374-205-9

Classification

100

Content Type

text

Media Type

computer

Carrier Type

online resource

Edition

-

Subject(s)

Tolerance

Specific Detail Info

-

Statement of Responsibility

Penyunting, Caroline Warman ... [et al.]

Other Information

Cataloger

Jemadi

Source

-

Validator

maya

Other version/related

File Attachment

Comments

---

You must be logged in to post a comment