John Locke, Toleration and Early Enlightenment Culture

John Marshall offers an extensive study of late seventeenth-century practices of religious intolerance and toleration in England, Ireland, France, Piedmont and the Netherlands and of the arguments which John Locke and his associates made in defence of 'universal religious toleration'. He analyzes early modern and early Enlightenment discussions of toleration; debates over toleration for Jews and Muslims as well as for Christians; the limits of toleration for the intolerant, atheists, 'libertines' and 'sodomites'; and the complex relationships between intolerance and resistance theories including Locke's own Treatises.

Author: John Marshall
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 04/17/2006
Pages: 776
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 2.95lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 2.00d
ISBN: 9780521651141

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 08/01/2006 pg. 5