Rousseau and l’Infâme

Ourida Mostefai is Associate Professor of French at Boston College. Author of Le Citoyen de Genève et la République des Lettres: étude de la controverse autour de la “Lettre à d’Alembert” (2003), she has edited Lectures de “La Nouvelle Héloïse” (1993) and co-edited, with John C. O’Neal, Approaches to Teaching Rousseau’s “Confessions” and “Rêveries” (2003).John T. Scott is Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Davis. He has translated and edited Rousseau’s Essay on the Origin of Languages and Writings Related to Music, and edited Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers (4 volumes, 2005). He is the author, with Robert Zaretsky, of The Rift: Rousseau, Hume and the Quarrel that Shook the Enlightenment (2009).

• AcknowledgmentsEditors’ PrefaceNotice on citations and abbreviationsVoltaire, Rousseau, and L’infâmeRaymond TROUSSON : Tolérance et fanatisme selon Voltaire et RousseauThe victims of fanaticismJ. Patrick LEE: The condemnation of fanaticism in Voltaire’s Sermon du rabbin AkibAnne-Marie MERCIER-FAIVRE : Du Traité sur la tolérance de Voltaire aux Lettres écrites de la montagne de Rousseau:Variations sur la victime du fanatismeOurida MOSTEFAI : Singularité et exemplarité du cas “Jean-Jacques”: théorie et expérience du fanatisme chez RousseauReligion against intoleranceJohn T. SCOTT: Pride and providence: Religion in Rousseau’s Lettre à Voltaire sur la providenceChristopher BERTRAM: Toleration and pluralism in Rousseau’s civil religionBruno BERNARDI : La religion civile, institution de tolérance?Fanaticism, cruelty, and pityChristopher KELLY: Pious cruelty: Rousseau on Voltaire’s MahometJeremiah L. ALBERG: Preventing fanaticism through transcendental violence: The second part of the “Profession de foi”Zev TRACHTENBERG: Civic fanaticism and the dynamics of pityAtheism and tolerationPhilip STEWART: Are atheists fanatics? Variations on a theme of Locke and BayleJohn Hope MASON: At the limits of toleration: Rousseau and atheismRousseau and l’Infâme revisitedJean-François PERRIN : Penser l’hégémonie: intolérance et Lumières dans Rousseau juge de Jean-JacquesMichel SCHMOUCHKOVITCH : Portrait d’un fanatique? Jean-Jacques en DiogèneNote on contributorsIndex