Toleration Re-Examined - Rilegato

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ISBN 10: 0415531357 ISBN 13: 9780415531351

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2012

Riassunto

The problem of how we are to live together in morally and culturally diverse democratic societies is central to modern life. Over the last thirty years, an extensive philosophical literature has developed around the idea of toleration as a way of engaging with that problem. However, recent years have witnessed a growing backlash against the idea of toleration, which is often considered too ‘thin’, or too unambitious an aspiration for liberal democracy. This timely collection of essays from an international field of experts in the history and philosophy of toleration takes stock of this debate and offers a distinctive reassessment of the place of toleration in contemporary political life. Against the general climate of scepticism, the message that emerges from these essays is that toleration remains an extremely powerful idea, and one that must remain central to the political enterprise of forging social unity amid diversity in the twenty-first century.

This book was originally published as a special issue of Critical Review of Social and Political Philosophy.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Derek Edyvane is a lecturer in Political Theory at the University of Leeds, UK.

Matt Matravers is Professor of Political Philosophy and Director of the Morrell Centre for Toleration at the University of York, UK.

Contenuti:

1. Introduction: toleration re-examined 2. Why the traditional conception of toleration still matters 3. Blind spots in the toleration literature 4. Christian foundations; or some loose stones? Toleration and the Philosophy of Locke’s Politics 5. Toleration in a New Key: Historical and Global Perspectives 6. Toleration as Sedition 7. Must the tolerant person have a sense of humour? On the structure of tolerance as a virtue 8. Tolerance and Pain

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0415531357
• ISBN 13: 9780415531351
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 152
• Redattore: Edyvane Derek, Matravers Matt