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BA in History/Intellectual History
Special Subject: Terms 5 and 6 (Spring and Summer 2003)
Toleration and Persecution in Modern Europe:
Political Theory and Practice
Tutor: Martin van Gelderen
Teaching Method: Seminar
Course Outline: This course will focus on how European societies have come to
terms with the rise of a plurality of religious, political, social and ethnic minorities in
both theory and practice. Starting with the debates on religious toleration, the course
will move on to study the controversies around witchcraft and female identity,
antisemitism and multiculturalism
PROGRAMME OF THE COURSE:
Week 1: The Concept of Toleration
PART I: RELIGIOUS TOLERATION
Week 2: John Locke on Toleration.
Week 3: Pierre Bayle, Scepticism and the Huguenot Diaspora
PART II: TOLERATION AND PERSECUTION OF WOMEN
Week 4: Witchcraft and Sexuality in the Reformation
Week 5: The Rights of Women in the Enlightenment: Mary Wollstonecraft
Week 6: Liberalism and the Subjection of Women: John Stuart Mill
PART III: ANTISEMITISM IN MODERN EUROPE
Week 7: The Early Modern Roots of Antisemitism: Luther, Erasmus and
Reuchlin
Week 8: Baruch de Spinoza: Religious Toleration and the Jewish Question
Week 9: Toleration and Antisemitism in the German Enlightenment: Lessing's
'Nathan the Wise'
Week 10: Anti-Semitism in the German Nineteenth Century: Bruno Bauer and
Karl Marx
Week 11: Antisemitism and the Holocaust: The Goldhagen Controversy
PART IV: CONTEMPORARY DEBATES
Week 12: Hannah Arendt and the postwar debate on antisemitism
Week 13: Toleration, Liberalism and Multiculturalism: Charles Taylor and
Michael Walzer
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Seminar Reading
INTRODUCTION
Week 1: The Concept of Toleration
- Susan Mendus, Toleration and the Limits of Liberalism (Macmilland, 1989),
Chapter 1, pp. 1-21.
- Heiko A. Oberman, ‘The Travail of Tolerance: Containing Chaos in early modern
Europe’ in Ole Peter Grell and Bob Scribner (eds.), Tolerance and Intolerance in
the European Reformation (Cambridge, 1996), pp. 13-31.
- Martin Fitzpatrick, ‘Toleration and the Enlightenment Movement’ in Ole Peter Grell
and Roy Porter (eds.), Toleration in Enlightenment Europe (Cambridge, 2000)
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PART I: RELIGIOUS TOLERATION
Week 2: John Locke on Toleration.
Primary Sources:
- John Locke, 'Letter on Toleration' in John Horton, Susan Mendus (eds), John
Locke's Letter on Toleration in Focus (London, 1991), pp. 12-56 (other editions are
available)
Commentary (for Seminar Discussion):
- Susan Mendus, Toleration and the Limits of Liberalism (Basingstoke, Macmillan,
1989), Chapter 2, pp. 22-43.
- John Dunn, 'The Claim to Freedom of Conscience: Freedom of Speech, Freedom
of Thought, Freedom of Worship' in Ole Peter Grell, Jonathan Israel, Nicholas
Tyacke (eds.), From Persecution to Toleration. The Glorious Revolution and Religion
in England (Oxford, 1991), pp. 171-193
- James Tully, An Approach to political philosophy: Locke in Contexts (Cambridge,
1993); Chapter 6: 'Governing conduct: Locke on the reform of thought and
behaviour' (pp. 179-241)
Week 3: Pierre Bayle, Scepticism and the Huguenot Diaspora
Primary sources:
- Pierre Bayle, 'Clarifications: On Atheists and On Obscenities' in Pierre Bayle,
Political Writings, edited by Sally L. Jenkinson '(Cambridge, 2000), 311-341 (also
available in other editions of Bayle's Historical and Critical Dictionary including
the Hackett paperback edition)
Commentary
- Elisabeth Labrousse, Bayle, Past Masters, Oxford, 1983.
- Luisa Simonutti, ‘Between political loyalty and religious liberty: Political theory and
toleration in Huguenot thought in the epoch of Bayle’, History of Political Thought,
1996, Vol.17, No.4, pp.523-554.
- Sally L. Jenkinson, 'Two concepts of Tolerance: Why Bayle is not Locke', The
Journal of Political Philosophy, vol 4, no 4 (1996), 302-322.
- Philip Benedict, Un roi, une loi, deux fois: parameters for the history of CatholicReformed co-existence in France, 1555-1685’ in Ole Peter Grell and Bob Scribner
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(eds.), Tolerance and Intolerance in the European Reformation (Cambridge, 1996),
pp. 65-92.
- Myriam Yardeni, 'French Calvinist Political Thought' in Menna Prestwich (ed.),
International Calvinism 1541-1715 (Oxford, 1985), pp. 315-337.
PART TWO: TOLERATION AND PERSECUTION OF WOMEN
Week 4: Witchcraft and Sexuality in the Reformation
Primary Sources
- Barbara Rosen (ed.), Witchcraft in England, 1558-1618 (Amherst, Mass., 1991)
Commentary
- Lyndal Roper, Oedipus and the Devil. Witchcraft, Sexuality and Religion in Early
Modern Europe (London, 1994), especially chapters 1, 2, 9 and 10.
- Stuart Clark, Thinking with Demons : the Idea of Witchcraft in early modern Europe
(Oxford, 1997); part 1: Language, 1-147, especially chapter 8.
- Brian P. Levack, ‘The Great Witch-Hunt’ in Thomas A. Brady, Heiko Oberman, and
James D. Tracy (eds.), Handbook of European History, 1400-1600. Late Middle
Ages, Renaissance and Reformation (Leiden, 1994 and Grand Rapids, Mich., 1996),
volume 2, pp. 607-640.
- Bob Scribner, 'Preconditions of tolerance and intolerance in sixteenth-century
Germany' in Ole Peter Grell and Bob Scribner (eds.), Tolerance and Intolerance in
the European Reformation (Cambridge, 1996), pp. 32-47.
Week 5: The Rights of Women in the Enlightenment: Mary Wollstonecraft and
the Declaration of Rights
Primary Sources
- 'Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen'; many editions available , for
example in Dale Van Kley (ed.), The French Idea of Freedom. The Old Regime and
the Declaration of Rights of 1789 (Standford, Cal., 1994), pp. 1-5 and in Paul H. Beik
(ed.), The French Revolution (Macmillan ,1970), pp. 94-97.
- Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman -- many editions
available, for example Sylvana Tomaselli's edition, Mary Wollstonecraft: A
Vindication of the Rights of Men with A Vindication of the Rights of Woman in the
Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought (Cambridge, 1995)
Commentary
- Shanti Marie Singham, 'Betwixt Cattle and Men: Jews, Blacks, and Women, and
the Declaration of the Rights of Man' in Dale Van Kley (ed.), The French Idea of
Freedom. The Old Regime and the Declaration of Rights of 1789 (Standford, Cal.,
1994), pp. 114-153
- Moira Gatens, '"The Oppressed State of my Sex": Mary Wollstonecraft on Reason,
Feeling, and Equality' in Mary Lyndon Shanley, Carole Pateman (eds.), Feminist
Interpretations and Political Theory (Cambridge, 1991), pp. 112-128
- Virginia Sapiro, Vindication of Political Virtue: The Political Theory of Mary
Wollstonecraft (Chicago/London, 1992)
- Sylvana Tomaselli, 'The Enlightenment Debate on Women', History Workshop, 20
(1985), pp. 101-125
Week 6: Liberalism and the Subjection of Women: John Stuart Mill
Primary Sources
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- John Stuart Mill, 'The Subjection of Women' in John Stuart Mill, On Liberty with The
Subjection of Women and Chapters on Socialism,.ed. Stefan Collini (Cambridge,
1989), pp.195-217
Commentary
- Susan Mendus, Toleration and the Limits of Liberalism (Macmilland, 1989),
Chapter 3, pp. 44-68.
- Susan Moller Okin, 'John Stuart Mill, Liberal Feminist', in Susan Moller Okin,
Women in Western Political Thought, 7th ed. (Princeton, 1992) pp.197-230 and 361366.
- Mary Lyndon Shanley, 'Marital Slavery and Friendship: John Stuart Mill's The
Subjection of Women' in Mary Lyndon Shanley and Carole Pateman, Feminist
Interpretations and Political Theory (Cambridge, 1991), pp. 165-180.
- Stefan Collini, 'Their Master's Voice: John Stuart Mill as a Public Moralist' in Stefan
Collini, Public Moralists. Political Thought and Intellectual Life in Britain, 1850-1930
(Oxford, 1991), pp. 121-169.
PART THREE: ANTISEMITISM IN MODERN EUROPE
Week 7: The Early Modern Roots of Antisemitism: Luther, Erasmus and
Reuchlin
Primary Sources
- Martin Luther, 'That Jesus Christ was born a Jew’ (1523) in Luther’s Works.
Volume 45, (Philadelphia, 1962), pp 197-229.
- Martin Luther, ‘The Jews and their Lies' (1543) in Luther’s Works. Volume 47,
(Philadelphia, 1971), pp 123-306.
Commentary
- Heiko Oberman, The Impact of the Reformation (Grand Rapids, Mich., 1994), Part
III: The Growth of Antisemitism, pp. 81-170.
- Heiko Oberman, Roots of Anti-Semitism in the Age of Renaissance and
Reformation (Philadelphia, 1984)
- Robert Bonfil, 'Aliens Within: The Jews and Antijudaism' in Thomas A. Brady, Heiko
Oberman, and James D. Tracy (eds.), 'Handbook of European History, 1400-1600.
Late Middle Ages, Renaissance and Reformation' (Leiden, 1994 and Grand Rapids,
Mich., 1996), volume 1, pp. 263-303.
Week 8: Baruch de Spinoza: Religious Toleration and the Jewish Question
Primary sources:
- Spinoza, Theologico-Political Treatise (available in many editions)
Commentary
- Jonathan Israel, 'Spinoza, Locke and the Enlightenment Battle for Toleration' in Ole
Peter Grell and Roy Porter (eds.), Toleration in Enlightenment Europe
(Cambridge, 2000) 102-113
- Jonathan Israel , ‘Religious toleration and radical philosophy in the later Dutch
Golden Age’, in R. Po-chia Hsia, Henk van Nierop (eds.) (Cambridge, 2002)
- Steven Nadler, Spinoza: A Life (Cambridge, 1999)
- Steven B. Smith, Spinoza, Liberalism, and the Question of Jewish Identity (New
Haven and London, 1998)
Week 9: Toleration and Antisemitism in the German Enlightenment: Lessing's
'Nathan the Wise'
Primary sources
- Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, 'Nathan the Wise (many editions available)
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Commentary
- Ritchie Robertson, ‘Dies Hohe Lied der Duldung’? The Ambiguities of Toleration in
Lessing’s Die Juden and Nathan der Weise, Modern Language Review, Vol. 93, Part
1 (1998), pp. 105-120.
- Jacob Katz, From Prejudice to Destruction. Anti-Semitism, 1700-1933 (Cambridge,
Mass., 1980), Part I, pp. 13-50.
- David Sorkin, ‘Jews, the Enlightenment, and Religious Toleration –Some
Reflections’, Leo Baeck Institute Yearbook, volume 37 (1992), pp. 3-16.
- Joachim Whaley, 'A Tolerant Society? Religious Toleration in the Holy Roman
Empire, 1648-1806' in Ole Peter Grell and Roy Porter (eds.), Toleration in
Enlightenment Europe (Cambridge, 2000), 175-195.
Week 10: Anti-Semitism in the German Nineteenth Century: Bruno Bauer and
Karl Marx
Primary Sources
- Bruno Bauer, ‘The Jewish Problem’ (1843) in Paul R. Mendes Flohr and Jehuda
Reinharz (eds), The Jew in the Modern World. A Documentary History, 2nd ed.
(Oxford, 1995), 321-324
- Karl Marx, On the Jewish Question (many editions available)
Commentary
- Jacob Katz, From Prejudice to Destruction. Anti-Semitism, 1700-1933 (Cambridge,
Mass., 1980), Part IV, pp. 147-220.
- David Leopold, 'The Hegelian antisemitism of Bruno Bauer', History of European
Ideas, vol 25 (1999) 179-206.
- Yoav Peled, 'From Theology to Sociology: Bruno Bauer and Karl Marx on the
Question of Jewish Emancipation', History of Political Thought, Vol. 13, No. 3
(1992), pp. 463-485
Week 11: Antisemitism and the Holocaust: The Goldhagen Controversy
Primary Sources
- Daniel Goldhagen, Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the
Holocaust (London, 1996)
- Daniel Goldhagen, ‘Motives, Causes, and Alibis. A Reply to my Critics’, The New
Republic, December 23 (1996), pp. 37-45
Commentary
- Robert R Shandley (ed), Unwilling Germans? The Goldhagen Debate,
(Minneapolis, 1998)
- Ruth Bettina Birn, ‘Revising the Holocaust : A review essay of Daniel Jonah
Goldhagen's 'Hitler's willing executioners', Historical Journal, Vol.40, No.1 (1997)
pp.195-215 also in N.G. Finkelstein and Ruth Bettina Birn, A Nation on Trial :
The Goldhagen Thesis and Historical Truth (New York, 1998)
- G. Jahoda, ‘Hitler's willing executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust’,
Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Vol.29, No.1 (1998), pp.69- 88
- Hans-Ulrich Wehler, ‘The Goldhagen Controversy: Agonizing Problems, Scholarly
Failure and the Political Dimension’, German History, Vol. 15, No.1, pp. 80-91.
- Christopher
R. Browning, Nazi Policy, Jewish Workers, German Killers
(Cambridge, 2000)
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PART IV: CONTEMPORARY DEBATES
Week 12: Hannah Arendt and the postwar debate on antisemitism
Primary Sources
- Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, New Edition (Harcourt Trade
Publishers, 1973; other editions available) espcecially part one.
- Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem. A Report on the Banality of Evil (Penguin
Books, 1994; other editions available)
Commentary
- Richard J. Bernstein, Hannah Arendt and the Jewish Question (Cambridge, Mass.,
1996)
- Margaret Canovan, 'Friendship, truth and politics: Hannah Arendt and Toleration' in
Susan Mendus (ed.), Justifying Tolerance: Conceptual and Historical Perspectives
(Cambridge, 1988) pp. 177-198.
Week 13: Toleration, Liberalism and Multiculturalism
Primary Sources:
- Charles Taylor, 'The Politics of Recognition' in Amy Gutman (ed.), Multiculturalism:
Examining the Politics of Recognition (Princeton, 1994) 25-73.
- Michael Walzer, On Toleration (New Haven/London, 1997)
Commentary:
- Thomas L. Dumm, 'Strangers and Liberals', Political Theory, vol 22, no 1 (1994),
pp. 167-175
- Amelie Oksenberg Rorty, 'The Hidden Politics of Cultural Identification', Political
Theory, vol 22, no 1 (1994), pp. 152-166
- Pierre Birnbaum, 'From Multiculturalism to Nationalism', Political Theory, vol 24, no
1 (1996), pp. 33-45.
- Robert Wokler, 'Multiculturalism and Ethnic Cleansing in the Enlightenment' in Ole
Peter Grell and Roy Porter (eds.), Toleration in Enlightenment Europe
(Cambridge, 2000), 69-85
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FURTHER READING
General Studies
- John Boswell, Christianity, social tolerance, and homosexuality : gay people in Western Europe from
the beginning of the Christian era to the fourteenth
Century (Chicago,1980)
- David Heyd, Toleration : an elusive virtue : Papers delivered at the Encounter (Princeton, 1996)
- Jonathan Israel, Radical Enlightenment. Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650-1750,
Oxford, 2001
- Preston King, Toleration, New Edition (London, 1998)
- Susan Mendus (ed.), Justifying Tolerance: Conceptual and Historical Perspectives (Cambridge,
1988)
- Susan Mendus (ed.), The politics of toleration : tolerance and intolerance in modern life (Edinburgh,
1999)
PART I: RELIGIOUS TOLERATION
General Studies
- John Coffey, Persecution and Toleration in Protestant England, 1558-1689 (Longman, 2000)
- Ole Peter Grell and Bob Scribner (eds.), Tolerance and Intolerance in the European Reformation
(Cambridge, 1996)
-W.K. Jordan, The Development of Religious Toleration in England, four vols. (London, 1932-1940)
- John Christian Laursen (ed.), Histories of Heresy in the 17th and 18th Centuries: For, Against and
Beyond Persecution and Toleration (Palgrave, 2002)
- Joseph Lecler, Toleration and the Reformation, two volumes (London, 1960)
- Po-chia Hsia, Henk van Nierop (eds.) mbridge, 2002)
- W.J. Sheils (ed.), Persecution and Toleration (Oxford, 1984)
- Richard Popkin, The History of Scepticism from Erasmus to Spinoza (Berkeley/Los Angeles/London,
1979)
Week 2: John Locke on Toleration.
- Richard Ashcraft, Revolutionary Politics & Locke's 'Two treatises of Government' (Princeton, 1986)
- Richard Ashcraft, Locke's Two Treatises of Government (London, 1989)
- John Dunn, Locke, Past Masters (Oxford, 1984)
- John Horton, Susan Mendus (eds), John Locke's Letter on Toleration in Focus (London, 1991)
- John Marshall, John Locke: Resistance, Religion and Repsonsibility (Cambridge, 1994)
- James Tully, An Approach to political philosophy: Locke in Contexts (Cambridge, 1993)
- Jeremy Waldron, 'Locke: Toleration and the Rationality of Persecution' in Susan Mendus (ed.),
Justifying Tolerance: Conceptual and Historical Perspectives (Cambridge, 1988) pp. 61-87.
Week 3: Pierre Bayle, Scepticism and the Huguenot Diaspora
- Geoffrey Adams, The Huguenots and French Opinion 1685-1787: The Enlightenment Debate on
Toleration (Waterloo, Ontario, 1991)
- Michael Heyd, 'A disguised atheistor a sincere Christian? The enigma of Pierre Bayle', Bibliothèque
d'Humanisme et de Renaissance, vol 39 (1977), pp. 157-165
- Elisabeth Labrousse, 'The political ideas of the Huguenots of the disapora (Bayle and Jurieu) in
Richard M. Golden (ed.), Church, State and Society under the Bourbon Kings of France (Lawrence,
Kansas, 1982), pp. 222-283.
- M. Magdelaine, M. Pitassi, R. Whelan and A. McKenna, De l'humanisme aux lumières, Bayle et le
Protestantisme (Paris and Oxford,1996)
- H.B. Nisbey, 'Lessing and Pierre Bayle' in C.P. Magill et. al. (eds.), Tradition and Creation: Essays in
Honour of E.M. Wilkinson (Leeds, 1978), pp. 13-29.
- Richard Popkin, 'Pierre Bayle's place in 17th-century scepticism' in Paul Dibon (ed.), Pierre Bayle le
Philosophe de Rotterdam (Paris, 1959), pp. 1-19.
- Ruth Whelan, The Anatomy of Superstition: a Study of the Historical Theory and Practice of Pierre
Bayle (Oxford, 1989)
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- Miriam Yardeni, 'New Concepts of post-Commonwealth Jewish history in the early Enlightenment:
Bayle and Basnage, European Studies Review, vol 7 (1977), pp. 245-258.
PART II: TOLERATION AND PERSECUTION OF WOMEN
General Studies
- S Benhabib, Feminist Contentions: A Philosophical Exchange (Cambridge, 1995)
- Gisela Bock and Susan James (eds.), Beyond Equality and Difference: Citizenship, Feminist Politics,
and Female Subjectivity (London, 1992)
- Jean Bethke Elshtain, Public Man, Private Woman: Women in social and Political Thought
(Princeton, 1981)
- Olwen Hufton, The Prospect before Her
- Susan Moller Okin, Women in Western Political Thought. 7th ed. (Princeton, 1992)
- Susan Moller Okin, Justice, Gender and the Family (New York, 1989)
- Carol Pateman, The Sexual Contract (Cambridge, 1988)
- Mary Lyndon Shanley and Carole Pateman, Feminist Interpretations and Political Theory
(Cambridge, 1991)
- Iris Marion Young, Justice and the Politics of Difference (Princeton, 1990)
Week 4: Witchcraft and Sexuality in the Reformation
- Bengt Ankarloo and Gustav Henningsen (eds.), Early Modern European Witchcraft: Centres and
Peripheries (Oxford, 1990)
- Jonathan Barry, Marianne Hester and Gareth Roberts (eds.), Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe.
Studies in Culture and Belief (Cambridge, 1998)
- Robin Briggs, Witches and Neighbours: The Social and Cultural Context of European Witchcraft
(Oxford, 2002)
- Carlo Ginzburg, The Night Battles: Witchcraft and Agrarian Cults in the 16th and
17th centuries (London,1983)
- Carlo Ginzburg, Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches' Sabbath (London, 1990)
- Clive Holmes, 'Women: Witnesses and Witches', Past and Present 140 (1993), pp. 45-78.
- Christina Larner, Witchcraft and Religion: the Politics of Popular Belief (Oxford, 1984)
- Brian P. Levack, The Witch-Hunt in Early Modern Europe, 2nd ed. (London, 1995)
- Brian P. Levack (ed), Witchcraft, Women and Society : Articles on Witchcraft, Magic and
Demonology : V.10 (New York,1992)
- P.G. Maxwell-Stuart, Witchcraft in Europe and the New World, 1400-1800 (London, 2001)
- William Monter (ed.), European Witchcraft (New York, 1969)
- H.C. Erik Middelfort, Witch-Hunting in Southwestern Germany, 1562-1684: The Social and
Intellectual Foundations (Stanford, 1972)
- Diane Purkiss, The Witch in History. Early Modern and Twentieth-century Representations
(London/New York, 1996)
Week 5: The Rights of Women in the Enlightenment: Mary Wollstonecraft and the Declaration
of Rights
- Keith Baker, Inventing the French Revolution. Essays on French Political Culture in the eighteenth
century (Cambridge, 1990)
- Keith Baker, Francois Furet and others (eds.), The French Revolution and the creation of modern
political culture, four volumes (Oxford, 1987)
- Alice Browne, The eighteenth-Century Feminist Mind (Brighton, 1987)
- Marilyn Butler, Burke, Paine, Godwin, and the Revolution Controversy (Cambridge, 1984)
- C. Faure, Democracy without Women: Feminism and the Rise of Individualism in France
(Bloomington, 1991)
- Ole Grell and Roy Porter (eds.), Toleration in Enlightenment Europe (Cambridge, 1999)
- CL Johnson, Equivocal beings : politics, gender and sentimentality in the 1790's: Wollstonecraft,
Radcliffe, Burney, Austen (Chicago, 1995)
- Gary Kelly, Revolutionary Feminist: The Mind and Career of Mary Wollstonecraft (London, 1992)
- Joan B. Landes, Women and the Public Sphere in the Age of the French Revolution (Ithaca/London,
1988)
- Jane Rendall. The Origins of Modern Feminism: Women in Britain, France and the United States
1780-1860 (London, 1985)
- Janet Todd, Mary Wollstonecraft (Phoenix Press, 2001)
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Week 6: Liberalism and the Subjection of Women: John Stuart Mill
- Richard Bellamy (ed.), Victorian Liberalism: Nineteenth-Century Political thought and practice
(London, 1990)
- J.W. Burrow, Whigs and Liberals: Continuity and Change in English Political Thought. The Carlyle
Lectures, 1985 (Oxford, 1988).
- David Edwards, 'Toleration and Mill's liberty of thought and discussion' in Susan Mendus (ed.),
Justifying Tolerance: Conceptual and Historical Perspectives (Cambridge, 1988), pp 87-113.
- John Gray, Mill on Liberty: A Defence (London, 1983)
- J.C. Rees, John Stuart Mill's 'On Liberty' (Oxford, 1985)
- William Thomas, Mill (Oxford, 1985)
PART III: ANTISEMITISM IN MODERN EUROPE
General Studies
- Gavin I. Langmuir, Toward a Definition of Antisemitism (Berkeley, 1990)
- Richard Levy (ed.), Antisemitism in the Modern World. An Anthology of Texts (Lexington, Mass.,
1991)
- Paul R. Mendes Flohr and Jehuda Reinharz (eds), The Jew in the Modern World. A Documentary
History, 2nd ed. (Oxford, 1995)
- Lionel B. Steiman, Paths to Genocide: Antisemitism in Western History (Macmillan, 1998)
- Robert S. Wistrich, Antisemitism: The Longest Hatred (London, 1991)
Week 7: The Early Modern Roots of Antisemitism: Luther, Erasmus and Reuchlin
- Cornelis Augustijn, Erasmus (Toronto, 1996)
- S.N. Eisenstadt (ed.), From Transformation to Crisis: Towards a Reassessment of Anti-Semitism in
Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe (Jerusalem, 1988)
- Heiko A. Oberman, Luther: Man between God and Devil (New Haven, 1989)
- James H. Overfield, 'A New look at the Reuchlin Affair', Studies in Medieval and Renaissance
History, vol 8 (1971), pp. 165-207
- Ronnie Po-Chia Hsia, The Myth of Ritual Murder: Jews and Magic in Reformation Germany (New
Haven/London, 1988)
- James Tracy, Erasmus of the Low Countries (Berkeley, CA, 1996)
Week 8: Baruch de Spinoza: Religious Toleration and the Jewish Question
- Etienne Balibar, Spinoza and Politics (London, 1998
- Gilles Deleuze, Expressionism in Philosophy : Spinoza (MIT Press, 1992)
- Douglas J. Den Uyl, Power, state and freedom : an interpretation of Spinoza's political philosophy
(Assen,1983)
- Don Garrett (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Spinoza (Cambridge, 1996).
- Moira Gatens, 'Spinoza, Law and Responsibility' in Moira Gatens, Imaginary Bodies (London, 1996),
pp. 108-124.
- Susan James, 'Power and Difference: Spinoza's Conception of Freedom', Journal of Political
Philosophy, vol 4 (1996), pp. 207-228.
- Richard Mason, The God of Spinoza (Cambridge, 1999)
- Steven Nadler, Spinoza : a life (Cambridge, 1999)
- Steven Nadler, Spinoza's Heresy: Immortality and the Jewish Mind (Oxford, 2001)
- Michael A. Rosenthal, 'Why Spinoza chose the Hebrews: The Exemplary Function of Prophecy in
the Theological-Political Treatise, History of Political Thought, Vol. 18, Issue 2 (1997), pp. 207241
- A Sutcliffe, ‘Judaism in Spinoza and his circle (On the dissonant mingling of Jewish and Iberian
Catholic influences in seventeenth-century Sephardic Amsterdam), STUDIA ROSENTHALIANA,
vol 34, no 1 (2000) 7-22
- Y. Yovel, Spinoza and other heretics. Two Volumes, (Princeton U.P., 1989)
Week 9: Toleration and Antisemitism in the German Enlightenment: Lessing's 'Nathan the
Wise'
- Jo-Jacqueline Eckardt, Lessing's Nathan the Wise and the critics : 1779-1991 (Columbia, 1993)
- Peter R. Erspamer, The Elusiveness of Tolerance: The "Jewish Question" from Lessing to the
Napoleonic Wars (Chapel Hill/London, 1997)
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- Ole Grell and Roy Porter (eds.), Toleration in Enlightenment Europe (Cambridge, 1999)
- Ritchie Robertson, The "Jewish Question" in German Literature, 1749-1939 : Emancipation and its
discontents (Oxford, 1999)
- Ritchie Robertson (ed.), The German-Jewish Dialogue: An Anthology of Literary Texts, 1749-1993,
Oxford World's Classics (Oxford, 1999)
- David Sorkin, The Transformation of German Jewry, 1780-1840 (Oxford, 1987)
Week 10: Anti-Semitism in the German Nineteenth Century: Bruno Bauer and Karl Marx
- Terrell Carver (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Marx (Cambridge, 1992)
- Jack Jacobs, On Socialists and 'the Jewish Question' After Marx (Reappraisals in Jewish Social and
Intellectual History) (New York, 1993)
- Ritchie Robertson, The "Jewish Question" in German Literature, 1749-1939 : emancipation and its
discontents (Oxford, 1999)
- Dieter Langewiesche, Liberalism in Germany (Macmillan, 1999)
- David McLellan, Marx: a Modern Master (Fontana, 1986)
- Fritz Stern, Einstein's German world (Princeton, 1999)
- N. Rotenstreich, Jews and German Philosophy: The Polemics of Emancipation (New York, 1984)
- Reinhard Rürup, 'The Tortuous and Thorny Path to Legal Equality. 'Jew Laws' and emancipatory
legislation in Germany from the late eighteenth century', Leo Baeck Instiute Year Book XXXI (London,
1986), pp. 3-33.
Week 11: Antisemitism and the Holocaust: The Goldhagen Controversy
- Christopher Browning, The Path to Genocide. Essays on Launching the Final Solution (Cambridge,
1992)
- Christopher Browning, Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in
Poland (Penguin Books, 2001)
- Michael Burleigh & Wolfgang Wippermann, The Racial State: Germany 1933-1945 (Cambridge,
1991)
- Michael Burleigh, Ethics and Extermination : Reflections on Nazi Genocide (Cambridge, 1997)
- Geoff Eley (ed.), The "Goldhagen Effect": History, Memory, Nazism - Facing the German Past
(Social History, Popular Culture, and Politics in Germany) (Ann Arbor, Mich., 2000)
- Hans Mommsen, From Weimar to Auschwitz (Princeton, 1991)
- A.D Moses, Structure and agency in the Holocaust: Daniel J. Goldhagen and his critics, HISTORY
AND THEORY, Vol.37, No.2 (1998), pp.194-219
- Fritz Stern, Dreams and delusions : the drama of German history (London, 1987)
- F Wesley, The holocaust and anti-semitism : the Goldhagen argument and its effects (Int.Scholars
Press, 1998)
PART IV: THE CONTEMPORARY DEBATES
Week 12: Hannah Arendt and the postwar debate on antisemitism
- David Barnouw, Visible spaces : Hannah Arendt and the German-Jewish experience (Johns
Hopkins U.P.:Baltimore, 1990)
- Zygmunt Bauman, Modernity and the Holocaust (Cornell, 1989)
- Seyla Benhabib, The reluctant modernism of Hannah Arendt (Sage: Thousand Oaks,1996)
- Margaret Canovan, Hannah Arendt: a reinterpretation of her political thought (Cambridge, 1992)
- Maurizio Passerin d'Entreves, The political philosophy of Hannah Arendt (London, 1994)
- Dana Vila (ed.), the Cambridge Companion to Hannah Ahrendt (Cambridge, 2000)
- D Watson, Arendt, Modern masters (London, 1992)
- Richard Wolin, Heidegger's Children: Hannah Arendt, Karl Lowith, Hans Jonas, and Herbert
Marcuse (Princeton, 2001)
Week 13: Toleration, Liberalism and Multiculturalism
- Brian Barry, Culture and Equality (Cambridge, 2000)
- Amy Gutman (ed.), Multiculturalism: Examining the Politics of Recognition (Princeton, 1994)
- John P. Horton, Liberalism, Multiculturalism and Toleration (Basingstoke, 1993)
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-Paul Kelly (ed.), Multiculturalism Reconsidered: "Culture and Equality" and Its Critics (Cambridge,
2002)
- Will Kymlicka, Liberalism, Community and Culture (Oxford, 1991)
- Glen Newey, Toleration, ethics and virtue (Edinburgh, 1999)
- Bhikhu Parekh, Rethinking Multiculturalism: Cultural Diversity and Political Theory (Palgrave, 2000)
- Charles Taylor, Sources of Self (Cambridge, Mass., 1989)
- Charles Taylor, The Ethics of Athenticity (Cambridge, Mass., 1992)
- Michael Walzer, Interpretation and Social Criticism (Cambridge, Mass., 1987)
- James Tully (ed.), Philosophy in an Age of Pluralism: The Philosophy of Charles Taylor in Question
(Cambridge, 1994)
- James Tully, Strange Multiplicity: Constitutionalism in an Age of Diversity (Cambridge, 1995)
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