Rousseau and L'infame: Religion, Toleration, and Fanaticism in the Age of Enlightenment (Faux Titre, 326) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9042025050 ISBN 13: 9789042025059

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub, 2009

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author:

Ourida Mostefai is Associate Professor of French at Boston College. Author of Le Citoyen de Genève et la République des Lettres: étude de la controverse autour de la “Lettre à d’Alembert” (2003), she has edited Lectures de “La Nouvelle Héloïse” (1993) and co-edited, with John C. O’Neal, Approaches to Teaching Rousseau’s “Confessions” and “Rêveries” (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).

About this edition

• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 9042025050
• ISBN 13: 9789042025059
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 308
• Editor: Mostefai Ourida, Scott John T.