Mere Civility : Disagreement and the Limits of Toleration Pocket But when Charlotte's scientist father

But when Charlotte's scientist father makes an astonishing discovery that the Germans will covet for themselves

and her white husband knows nothing of her past

”—Michael Largo

the first of its kind

Mere Civility : Disagreement and the Limits of Toleration Pocket But when Charlotte's scientist fatherA 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