Politics of Toleration

Politics of Toleration
Author: Susan Mendus
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Total Pages: 169
Release: 2019-08-06
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1474470971

Toleration is a core issue within contemporary political debates. The chapters in this work reflect on the importance of tolerance and the dangers of intolerance, both historically and in the present day.

The Politics and Ethics of Toleration

The Politics and Ethics of Toleration
Author: Johannes Drerup
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 137
Release: 2021-07-20
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1000425185

Toleration plays a key role in liberal thought. This book explores our current understanding of toleration in liberal theory and practice. Toleration has traditionally been characterized as the willingness to put up with others or their actions or practices despite the fact that one considers them as objectionable. Toleration has thus been regarded as one of the core aspects of liberalism: as an indispensable democratic virtue and as a constitutive part of liberal political practice. In modern liberal societies, where deep disagreements about social values and ways of life are widespread, toleration still seems to be of crucial importance. However, contemporary debates on toleration cover an immense variety of theoretical and political issues ranging from controversies over its exact understanding and conceptual scope as well as its practical boundaries, e.g., regarding freedom of expression or the legitimate role of religious symbols in educational institutions. The contributions to this volume take up a number of carefully selected key questions and problems emerging from these ongoing theoretical and political controversies in order to explore and shed new light on pivotal conflicts and tensions that pervade different conceptions of toleration. The chapters in this book were originally published in the Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy.

On Toleration

On Toleration
Author: Michael Walzer
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2008-10-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0300127731

What kinds of political arrangements enable people from different national, racial, religious, or ethnic groups to live together in peace? In this book one of the most influential political theorists of our time discusses the politics of toleration. Michael Walzer examines five "regimes of toleration"—from multinational empires to immigrant societies—and describes the strengths and weaknesses of each regime, as well as the varying forms of toleration and exclusion each fosters. Walzer shows how power, class, and gender interact with religion, race, and ethnicity in the different regimes and discusses how toleration works—and how it should work—in multicultural societies like the United States. Walzer offers an eloquent defense of toleration, group differences, and pluralism, moving quickly from theory to practical issues, concrete examples, and hard questions. His concluding argument is focused on the contemporary United States and represents an effort to join and advance the debates about "culture war," the "politics of difference," and the "disuniting of America." Although he takes a grim view of contemporary politics, he is optimistic about the possibility of coexistence: cultural pluralism and a common citizenship can go together, he suggests, in a strong and egalitarian democracy.

Justifying Toleration

Justifying Toleration
Author: Susan Mendus
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 280
Release: 1988-04-28
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780521343022

This book traces the growth of philosophical justifications of toleration. The contributors discuss the grounds on which we may be required to be tolerant and the proper limits of toleration. They consider the historical and conceptual relation between toleration and scepticism and ask whether toleration is justified by considerations of autonomy or of prudence. The papers cover a range of perspectives on the subject, including Marxist and Socialist as well as liberal views. The editor's introduction prepares the ground by discussing the essential features of the subject and offers a lucid survey of the theories and arguments put forward in the book. The collection arises out of the Morrell Toleration Project at the University of York and all the papers were written as contributions to that project. The discussion will be of interest to specialists in philosophy, in political and social theory and in intellectual history.

The Politics of Toleration in Modern Life

The Politics of Toleration in Modern Life
Author: Susan Mendus
Publisher: Duke University Press
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2000
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780822324980

Collection of essays asks when intolerance is appropriate and questions how tolerance can be fostered in a contentious and tightly populated world.

Tolerance, Secularization and Democratic Politics in South Asia

Tolerance, Secularization and Democratic Politics in South Asia
Author: Humeira Iqtidar
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 227
Release: 2018-07-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108428541

Offers fresh perspectives on the relationship between secularization, tolerance and democracy through a theoretically informed look at South Asian politics.

Toleration and the Challenges to Liberalism

Toleration and the Challenges to Liberalism
Author: Johannes Drerup
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2020-10-19
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1000210103

This book explores the relationship between different versions of liberalism and toleration by focusing on their shared theoretical and political challenges. Toleration is among the most pivotal and the most contested liberal values and virtues. Debates about the conceptual scope, justification, and political role of toleration are closely aligned with historical and contemporary philosophical controversies on the foundations of liberalism. The essays in this volume focus on the specific connection between toleration and liberalism. The essays in Part I reconstruct some of the major historical controversies surrounding toleration and liberalism. Part II centers on general conceptual and justificatory questions concerning toleration as a central category for the definition of liberal political theory. Part III is devoted to the theoretical analysis of applied issues and cases of conflicts of toleration in liberal states and societies. Toleration and the Challenges to Liberalism will be of interest to researchers and advanced students in social and political philosophy, ethics, and political theory.

Toleration in Conflict

Toleration in Conflict
Author: Rainer Forst
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 662
Release: 2013-01-17
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521885779

This book represents the most comprehensive historical and systematic study of the theory and practice of toleration ever written.

The Politics of Toleration

The Politics of Toleration
Author: Susan (Professor of Politics and Director Mendus
Publisher:
Total Pages:
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ISBN: 9780748611690

Toleration is a core issue within contemporary political debates. The chapters in this work reflect on the importance of tolerance and the dangers of intolerance, both historically and in the present day. Contributors include George Carey, Helena Kennedy and Alasdair MacIntrye.