Mere Civility : Disagreement and the Limits of Toleration Pocket ”—Michael Largo

”—Michael Largo

Do I actively seek feedback myself

He himself is in big trouble

slight foxing to edges

from salmon-fishing journals to poems

Mere Civility : Disagreement and the Limits of Toleration Pocket ”—Michael LargoA New Statesman Best Book of the Year A Church Times Book of the Year We are facing a crisis of civility, a war of words polluting our public sphere. In liberal democracies committed to tolerating active, often heated disagreement, the loss of this virtue appears critical. Most modern appeals to civility follow arguments by Hobbes or Locke by proposing to suppress disagreement or exclude views we deem "uncivil" for the sake of social harmony. By