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The New Religious Intolerance

Overcoming the Politics of Fear in an Anxious Age

Martha C. Nussbaum

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Publication Date: 10/14/2013

304 pages

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Preface
1. Religion: A Time of Anxiety and Suspicion
2. Fear: A Narcissistic Emotion
3. First Principles: Equal Respect for Conscience
4. The Mote in My Brother’s Eye: Impartiality and the Examined Life
5. Inner Eyes: Respect and the Sympathetic Imagination
6. The Case of Park51
7. Overcoming the Politics of Fear
Notes
Index

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A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice, 2012

A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of 2012

Martha Nussbaum Is Winner of the 2021 Holberg Prize • 2018 Berggruen Prize for Philosophy and Culture • 2016 Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy

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