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Dear colleagues,
I am Enrico Zucchi, PhD candidate in Italian Literature at the University of Padova. I am pleased to announce the publication of the volume “Tracing the Path of Tolerance. History and Critique from the Early Modern Period to the Present Day” (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Cambridge Scholars Publishing). It contains essays written by several international scholars, dealing with the concept of tolerance from different perspectives (philosophy, history, literature, social sciences). Here you can find the complete description and read an extract of the book (http://www.cambridgescholars.com/tracing-the-path-of-tolerance).
Best wishes,
Enrico Zucchi
Tracing the Path of Tolerance. History and Critique from the Early Modern Period to the Present Day
Edited by Paolo Scotton and Enrico Zucchi
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 did the developed over time? Do they still represent a valid resource for comprehending our current societies and dealing with them? Through the different voices of several scholars in the humanities, this book traces the history of tolerance since the wars of religion to the contemporary age, combining the historical reconstruction with a theoretical and critical analysis of the idea and practice of tolerance in different epochs and places. The obstacle course depicted here reveals the constitutive fragility of this concept that, however, cannot be totally dismissed from our political vocabulary.
Contributors: José Luis Villacañas Berlanga (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) ; Judith Vega (University of Groningen) ; Miguel Giusti (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Perù) ; Fabrizio Lomonaco (University of Napoli « Federico II»); Alberto Carrara (University of Brescia); Enrico Zucchi (University of Padova); Angelo Monaco (University of Pisa); Vincent Tiberj (Sciences Po – Paris); Vincenzo Pace (University of Padova); Paolo Scotton (IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, Lucca); Adone Brandalise (University of Padova).
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