Literature, Culture, and Tolerance

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Table of Contents Editors’ Introduction 9 Part I: Humanism and the Values of Tolerance 15 Introduction to Part I 17 1. Attitudes towards the Other (MAGDALENA ŚRODA) 19 2. Learning from Montaigne (ARNE MELBERG) 33 Part II: The Philosophical, Religious, and Historical Bases of Tolerance and Toleration 43 Introduction to Part II 45 3. ‘Let not the booke of this law depart out of your mouthes.’ Printing and the Problem of Religious Tolerance in 16th Century England (TOBIAS BUDKE) 49 4. John Locke, the Third Earl of Shaftesbury, and Toleration (DANIEL CAREY) 59 5. Christianity, Secularism and Toleration: Liberal Values and Illiberal Attitudes (ALAN P. F. SELL) 71 6. Two Concepts of Tolerancja (ANDREW MURPHY) 91 Part III: Literature and the Forms of Tolerance 103 Introduction to Part III 105 7. Ethical vs. Aesthetical: Literature, Theory, Tolerance (PRZEMYSŁAW PIETRZAK) 109 8. Soliloquy and Tolerance: Metarepresentations as Presuppositions of a Literary Genre (KENNETH HOLMQVIST, JAROSŁAW PŁUCIENNIK) 119 9. Grounding for Toleration: A Skill–Based View of Tolerance Using Autobiographical Models (PENNY TUCKER) 141 10. The Stream of Consciousness Novel: Between Apology of Human Diversity and the Terror of Principium Individuationis (MAGDALENA REMBOWSKA–PŁUCIENNIK) 153 11. The Principle of Liberal Tolerance: The Journals of Max Frisch (JOANNA JABŁKOWSKA) 165 Part IV: Philosophy, Criticism, and Tolerance in the Age of Modernism and Postmodernism 177 Introduction to Part IV 179 12. Between Strength and Weakness: The Problem of Tolerance in the Philosophy of Nietzsche (PAWEŁ PIENIĄŻEK) 181 13. Some Gloss to Heteroglossia or a Short Heteroglossary (DANUTA ULICKA) 189 Part V: Challenges to Tolerance in the Contemporary Era 217 Introduction to Part V 219 14. ‘Osama Bin Laden Walks into a Bar...’ and Other Jokes for an Anxious Age: Reflections on Humor and the Interests of Tolerance (CHARLES RUSSELL) 223 15. Tolerance Renegotiated: Extremism and Terrorism in English Fiction (MARIE–LUISE EGBERT) 239 16. A Dialogue of Aggressions: Intolerance in Contemporary Cinema (MARCIN JAUKSZ) 249 Notes on Contributors 259 Index 263