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Title Tracing the path of tolerance : history and critique from the early modern period to the present day / edited by Paolo Scotton and Enrico Zucchi
Published Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016
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Description 1 online resource (vi, 180 pages)
Contents Introduction; Part I. Genealogy or Tolerance; Chapter One; Chapter Two; Chapter Three; Part II. 1700; Chapter Four; Chapter Five; Chapter Six; Part III. Deeds and Words; Chapter Seven; Chapter Eight; Part IV. Against Intolerance, Beyond Tolerance; Chapter Nine; Chapter Ten; Afterword; Notes on Contributors; Index of Names
Summary In the globalized, postmodern world, the production of encounters and crashes between dissimilar cultures, ways of life, and systems of values has drastically increased in number. More and more frequently, they originate harsh conflicts, exhibiting the existence of alternative and apparently incompatible ways of living and thinking - culturally, religiously, economically and politically speaking. In this context, words as tolerance and intolerance have been put at the heart of the political debate. However, what is the real meaning of these political concepts? Why did they originate and how di
Notes Collection of essays in both English and Italian
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Collection of essays in both English and Italian
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Subject Cultural pluralism -- History
Cultural pluralism -- Sociology
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Cultural pluralism
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Scotton, Paolo, 1989- editor.
Zucchi, Enrico, editor.
ISBN 9781443858465
1443858463