Rousseau and L'Infame : religion, toleration, and fanaticism in the age of Enlightenment / edited by Ourida Mostefai and John T. Scott.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rodopi (Firm), author, issuing body.

Series:

Faux titre ; no. 326.

Faux titre, 0167-9392 ; 326

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fanaticism.

Toleration.

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, 1712-1778--Religion.

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (309 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Ecrasez l’infâme ! Voltaire’s rallying cry against fanaticism resonates with new force today. Nothing suggests the complex legacy of the Enlightenment more than the struggle of superstition, prejudice, and intolerance advocated by most of the Enlightenment philosophers, regardless of their ideological differences. The aim of this book is to undertake a reconsideration of the controversies surrounding the questions of religion, toleration, and fanaticism in the eighteenth century through an examination of Rousseau’s dialogue with Voltaire. What come to light from this confrontation are two leading and at times competing world views and conceptions of the place of the engaged writer in society.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

EDITORS’ PREFACE / Ourida Mostefai and John T. Scott

NOTICE ON CITATIONS and ABBREVIATIONS

TOLÉRANCE ET FANATISME SELON VOLTAIRE ET ROUSSEAU / Raymond Trousson

THE CONDEMNATION OF FANATICISM IN VOLTAIRE’S SERMON DU RABBIN AKIB / J. Patrick Lee

DU TRAITÉ SUR LA TOLÉRANCE DE VOLTAIRE AUX LETTRES ÉCRITES DE LA MONTAGNE DE ROUSSEAU: VARIATIONS SUR LA VICTIME DU FANATISME / Anne-Marie Mercier-Faivre

SINGULARITÉ ET EXEMPLARITÉ DU CAS “JEAN-JACQUES”: THÉORIE ET EXPÉRIENCE DU FANATISME CHEZ ROUSSEAU / Ourida Mostefai

PRIDE AND PROVIDENCE: ROUSSEAU’S DIALOGUE WITH VOLTAIRE IN THE LETTRE À VOLTAIRE SUR LA PROVIDENCE / John T. Scott

TOLERATION AND PLURALISM IN ROUSSEAU’S CIVIL RELIGION / Christopher Bertram

LA RELIGION CIVILE, INSTITUTION DE TOLÉRANCE? / Bruno Bernardi

PIOUS CRUELTY: ROUSSEAU ON VOLTAIRE’S MAHOMET / Christopher Kelly

PREVENTING FANATICISM THROUGH TRANSCENDENTAL VIOLENCE: THE SECOND PART OF THE “PROFESSION DE FOI” / Jeremiah L. Alberg

CIVIC FANATICISM AND THE DYNAMICS OF PITY / Zev Trachtenberg

ARE ATHEISTS FANATICS? VARIATIONS ON A THEME OF LOCKE AND BAYLE / Philip Stewart

AT THE LIMITS OF TOLERATION: ROUSSEAU AND ATHEISM / John Hope Mason

PENSER L’HÉGÉMONIE: INTOLÉRANCE ET LUMIÈRES DANS ROUSSEAU JUGE DE JEAN-JACQUES / Jean-François Perrin

PORTRAIT D’UN FANATIQUE? JEAN-JACQUES EN DIOGÈNE / Michel Schmouchkovitch

NOTE ON CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

94-012-0665-1

1-4416-0110-4

OCLC:

314390472

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789401206655 DOI