Mere Civility : Disagreement and the Limits of Toleration Pocket slight foxing to edges

slight foxing to edges

But when Charlotte's scientist father makes an astonishing discovery that the Germans will covet for themselves

from salmon-fishing journals to poems

The book will sure find its way into the classroom

”—Michael Largo

Mere Civility : Disagreement and the Limits of Toleration Pocket slight foxing to edgesA New Statesman Best Book of the Year A Church Times Book of the Year We are facing a crisis of civility, a war of words polluting our public sphere. In liberal democracies committed to tolerating active, often heated disagreement, the loss of this virtue appears critical. Most modern appeals to civility follow arguments by Hobbes or Locke by proposing to suppress disagreement or exclude views we deem "uncivil" for the sake of social harmony. By