Irony and Toleration: Lessons from the Travels of Mendes Pinto
Rebecca Catz argues that Fernao Mendes Pinto's «Peregrination», a sprawling account of travels in the East first published in 1614, is a «plea for toleration». Richard Rorty says that irony is a good mode for postmodern intellectual life. But attention to the text suggests «that Mendes Pinto pr...
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Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University)
2009-12-01
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| Series: | RUDN Journal of World History |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.rudn.ru/world-history/article/viewFile/1274/747 |