Papers by Ingrid Creppell
Routledge eBooks, May 13, 2013
New York University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2022
Political Theory, Sep 19, 2019
Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks, 2014
In a well-known and in many ways remarkable passage in A Letter Concerning Toleration of 1689, Lo... more In a well-known and in many ways remarkable passage in A Letter Concerning Toleration of 1689, Locke sketched the following example of intolerance: An inconsiderable and weak number of Christians, destitute of everything, arrive in a Pagan country; these foreigners beseech the inhabitants, by the bowels of humanity, that they would succour them with the necessaries of life; those necessaries are given them, habitations are granted, and they all join together, and grow up into one body of people. The Christian religion by this means takes root in that country and spreads itself, but does not suddenly grow the strongest. While things are in this condition peace, friendship, faith, and equal justice are preserved amongst them. At length the magistrate becomes a Christian, and by that means their party becomes the most powerful. Then immediately all compacts are to be broken, all civil rights to be violated, that idolatry may be extirpated; and unless these innocent Pagans, strict observers of the rules of equity and the law of Nature and no ways offending against the laws of the society, I say, unless they will forsake their ancient religion and embrace a new and strange one, they are to be turned out of the lands and possessions of their forefathers and perhaps deprived of life itself. Then, at last, it appears what zeal for the Church, joined with the desire of dominion, is capable to produce, and how easily the pretence of religion, and of the care of souls, serves for a cloak to covetousness, rapine, and ambition.1
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Oct 7, 2010
Political Theory, May 1, 1996
International Theory, Sep 20, 2011
Why are some acts, events, or people elevated to a status of a threat, when no hostile action or ... more Why are some acts, events, or people elevated to a status of a threat, when no hostile action or direct physical damage appears imminent? Why are some relationships of threat infused with intense emotionality and ethical language? In this paper, I argue that puzzles such as these can be understood if we develop a concept of normative threat. The role of ethical values and beliefs has not been sufficiently integrated with the threat literature. Many writers assume that ethical language tied to constructions of threat serves merely to disguise and palliate the underlying hard reality of struggles for power. This is too simplistic. I offer an approach that takes seriously the normativity of the threat experience for people as members of political bodies. I argue that perceptions of threat emerge and carry a heightened emotional and moral energy when basic features of a political body's normative order appear to be at stake and people believe action affirming their strength as a collective body is required. Normative order comprises a set of principles citizens believe to be necessary for the functioning, justifiability, and indeed ‘reality’ of their political body. A normative threat is perceived as a promise of harm to the political body through defiance of basic principles of order and right that constitute one's group. The paper describes three main types of normative threat: transgression/grievance, subversion/insecurity, abomination/indignant aversion.
Lexington Books, 2008
LEXINGTON BOOKS A division of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. A wholly ... more LEXINGTON BOOKS A division of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. A wholly owned subsidiary of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 4501 Forbes Boulevard, Suite 200 Lanham, MD 20706 Estover Road Plymouth PL6 7PY United Kingdom Copyright© 2008 ...
Acknowledgements Preface Chapter 1. Introduction: Basic Reconceptions Chapter 2. Language and Ide... more Acknowledgements Preface Chapter 1. Introduction: Basic Reconceptions Chapter 2. Language and Identity: Making Toleration a Norm Chapter 3. Bodin and the State: Structuring a Political Self Chapter 4. Montaigne and the Body: Self-Reflection in Time Chapter 5. Locke and Society: Boundaries of Recognition Chapter 6. Defoe and the Individual: Forms of Public Judgement Chapter 7. Rebuilding Toleration Bibliography
One of the most important issues today is the conflict between identity groups. Can the concept o... more One of the most important issues today is the conflict between identity groups. Can the concept of toleration provide resources for thinking about this? The standard definition of toleration-rejection or disapproval of a practice or belief followed by a constraint of oneself from repressing it-has limits. If we seek to make political and social conditions of toleration among diverse people a stable reality, we need to flesh out more deeply and widely what that depends upon. The essence to which it has been reduced was not toleration's original impulse. In the sixteenth century, the objective was to create conditions of peaceful collective life among diverse groups of believers. I examine one strand of change in moral valuation underpinning political toleration: ideas about the body, time and the self as explored by Michel de Montaigne. We can extract from this analysis a way to think about grounding toleration today: a recognition of the value of particular, embodied selves.
New York University Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2020
University of Toronto Press eBooks, Dec 31, 2023
Envisioning Democracy, 2023
European Journal of Sociology, 1989
In the history of democracy, various criteria have been used to determine the size and nature of ... more In the history of democracy, various criteria have been used to determine the size and nature of the electorate. We can, in a general way, divide these criteria into two types which we might label ascribed versus achieved characteristics of the person. Suffrage qualifications based upon age, sex, race and religion would fall under the first category; qualifications determined by education, military and criminal status, and property fall under the second. The distinction draws attention to the implicit notion that some characteristics are acquired by individual choice (‘achieved’) while others are given from the outside simply by nature of an automatic inclusion within certain groups (‘ascribed’). Such a categorization is certainly open to challenge from many angles. The point however is that it provides us with one way to begin understanding the changes which democracy has undergone. Of the ascribed qualities only age remains a legitimate basis for denying suffrage. Variations in su...
Toleration and Its Limits
In this paper, I examine Hobbes's Behemoth as an extended description of and reaction to the ... more In this paper, I examine Hobbes's Behemoth as an extended description of and reaction to the dynamism, both positive and negative, of new conditions of democracy. It is not just disorder per se to which Hobbes is responding, but disorder resulting from a democratizing world and the demands of mobilized populations. On one level, he attacks democracy as a realm of elite competition that destroys a public good, yet on another he recognizes the necessity of constructing political principles as responsive to a politicized people and accepts the relevance of the people's judgment. Correspondingly, in this history of the English Civil War, Hobbes emphasized the ideological contention over ideas as a primary political force, with the implications this has for how the king must persuade the people to obey him and for how Hobbes's own positive political philosophy might be made a source of motivation for people.Avtorica analizira Hobbesov Behemoth kot obsežen opis novih demokrati...
American Conservatism, 2016
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