The Politics of Self-Preservation: Toleration and Identity in Pufendorf and Locke
Shortly after Locke’s return to England in 1689, his support for William’s cause was recognized by the offer of an ambassadorship to Brandenburg.2 It was an important post, not only because Frederick III had assisted William’s invasion, but also because he remained a crucial Continental ally in the ongoing struggle against France. Locke declined the offer, however, no doubt because his exile had been long enough already. Without his circle of expatriates in the Netherlands, most of whom had by now returned to England, as well as his other, Dutch friends, Berlin must have seemed a lonely place indeed, even if Locke’s earlier (1665–66) experience in Cleve, one of Brandenburg’s western territories, would have predisposed him to consider it a favorable context in at least some respects.3
Limborch’s Historia Inquisitionis and the Pursuit of Toleration
In 1692, Philippus van Limborch dedicated the volume of the Historia Inquisitionis to the Archbishop of Canterbury, John Tillotson:1 
The book which I now publish, and my History of the Inquisition prefixed to it, appeared to me worthy of Your Grace’s Patronage, rather than any other Person’s living, when I considered the Subject treated of in both of them, and that high Station, which in these most difficult Times You support with the greatest Honour and universal Applause of all good Men, for the common Advantage of the Reformed Churches.2
The Society of Individuals
Norbert Elias (1897-1990) Note on the text Preface Part I: The Society of Individuals (1939) Part II: Problems of self-consciousness and the image of man (1940s-1950s): Wishful and fearful self-images of humans as individuals and of society The thinking statues individualisation in the social process Part III: Changes in the we-I balance (1987) Appendix I: Rainer Maria Rilke, 'The Book of Pilgrimage' Appendix II: Two poems by Goethe Appendix III: Power struggles and the concepts of 'state' and 'society' Appendix IV: Migration and the conflict of generations Bibliography Index.