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Author:   Ourida Mostefai ,  John T. Scott
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Editions Rodopi B.V.
Volume:   326
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.490kg
ISBN:  

9789042025059

ISBN 10:   9042025050
Pages:   308
Publication Date:   01 January 2009
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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Acknowledgments Editors' Preface Notice on citations and abbreviations Voltaire, Rousseau, and L'infame Raymond TROUSSON : Tolerance et fanatisme selon Voltaire et Rousseau The victims of fanaticism J. Patrick LEE: The condemnation of fanaticism in Voltaire's Sermon du rabbin Akib Anne-Marie MERCIER-FAIVRE : Du Traite sur la tolerance de Voltaire aux Lettres ecrites de la montagne de Rousseau: Variations sur la victime du fanatisme Ourida MOSTEFAI : Singularite et exemplarite du cas Jean-Jacques : theorie et experience du fanatisme chez Rousseau Religion against intolerance John T. SCOTT: Pride and providence: Religion in Rousseau's Lettre a Voltaire sur la providence Christopher BERTRAM: Toleration and pluralism in Rousseau's civil religion Bruno BERNARDI : La religion civile, institution de tolerance? Fanaticism, cruelty, and pity Christopher KELLY: Pious cruelty: Rousseau on Voltaire's Mahomet Jeremiah L. ALBERG: Preventing fanaticism through transcendental violence: The second part of the Profession de foi Zev TRACHTENBERG: Civic fanaticism and the dynamics of pity Atheism and toleration Philip STEWART: Are atheists fanatics? Variations on a theme of Locke and Bayle John Hope MASON: At the limits of toleration: Rousseau and atheism Rousseau and l'Infame revisited Jean-Francois PERRIN : Penser l'hegemonie: intolerance et Lumieres dans Rousseau juge de Jean-Jacques Michel SCHMOUCHKOVITCH : Portrait d'un fanatique? Jean-Jacques en Diogene Note on contributors Index

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Ourida Mostefai is Associate Professor of French at Boston College. Author of Le Citoyen de Geneve et la Republique des Lettres: etude de la controverse autour de la Lettre a d'Alembert (2003), she has edited Lectures de La Nouvelle Heloise (1993) and co-edited, with John C. O'Neal, Approaches to Teaching Rousseau's Confessions and Reveries (2003). John T. Scott is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Davis. He has translated and edited Rousseau's Essay on the Origin of Languages and Writings Related to Music, and edited Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers (4 volumes, 2005). He is the author, with Robert Zaretsky, of The Rift: Rousseau, Hume and the Quarrel that Shook the Enlightenment (2009).

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