Literature, Culture, and Tolerance

Contents: Magdalena Sroda: Attitudes towards the Other - Arne Melberg: Learning from Montaigne - Tobias Budke: 'Let not the booke of this law depart out of your mouthes.' Printing and the Problem of Religious Tolerance in 16th Century England - Daniel Carey: John Locke, the Third Earl of Shaftesbury, and Toleration - Alan P. F. Sell: Christianity, Secularism and Toleration: Liberal Values and Illiberal Attitudes - Andrew Murphy: Two Concepts of Tolerancja - Przemyslaw Pietrzak: Ethical vs. Aesthetical: Literature, Theory, Tolerance - Kenneth Holmqvist/Jaroslaw Pluciennik: Soliloquy and Tolerance: Metarepresentations as Presuppositions of a Literary Genre - Penny Tucker: Grounding for Toleration: A Skill-Based View of Tolerance Using Autobiographical Models - Magdalena Rembowska-Pluciennik: The Stream of Consciousness Novel: Between Apology of Human Diversity and the Terror of Principium Individuationis - Joanna Jablkowska: The Principle of Liberal Tolerance: The Journals of Max Frisch - Pawel Pieniazek: Between Strength and Weakness: The Problem of Tolerance in the Philosophy of Nietzsche - Danuta Ulicka: Some Gloss to Heteroglossia or a Short Heteroglossary - Charles Russell: 'Osama Bin Laden Walks into a Bar...' and Other Jokes for an Anxious Age: Reflections on Humour and the Interests of Tolerance - Marie-Luise Egbert: Tolerance Renegotiated: Extremism and Terrorism in English Fiction - Marcin Jauksz: A Dialogue of Aggressions: Intolerance in Contemporary Cinema.

The Editors: Andrew R. Murphy is Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey (USA).
Charles Russell is Professor of English and Associate Director of the Institute on Ethnicity, Culture, and the Modern Experience on the Newark campus at Rutgers University.
Jaroslaw Pluciennik is Professor at the Institute of Theory of Literature, Theater and Audio-Visual Arts at the University of Lódz (Poland).
Irena Hübner is a Senior Lecturer and a Deputy Director at this Institute in Lódz.