This book looks at the development of the idea of toleration into something like its modern shape in the early enlightenment period and its consequences on the

This collection offers a timely opportunity to re-examine both the coherence of the concept of an ‘early Enlightenment’, and the specific contribution of na

Major intellectual and cultural history of intolerance and toleration in early modern Enlightenment Europe.

Over his long and illustrious career, Knud Haakonssen has explored the role of natural law in formulating doctrines of obligation and rights in accordance with