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Toleration in Conflict
Contributor(s): Forst, Rainer (Author), Cronin, Ciaran (Translator)
ISBN: 0521885779     ISBN-13: 9780521885775
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
OUR PRICE:   $108.30  
Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats
Published: February 2013
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BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | History & Theory - General
- Philosophy | Political
- Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social
Dewey: 306
LCCN: 2012019060
Series: Ideas in Context
Physical Information: 1.7" H x 7.1" W x 9.8" (2.95 lbs) 662 pages
 
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The concept of toleration plays a central role in pluralistic societies. It designates a stance which permits conflicts over beliefs and practices to persist while at the same time defusing them, because it is based on reasons for coexistence in conflict - that is, in continuing dissension. A critical examination of the concept makes clear, however, that its content and evaluation are profoundly contested matters and thus that the concept itself stands in conflict. For some, toleration was and is an expression of mutual respect in spite of far-reaching differences, for others, a condescending, potentially repressive attitude and practice. Rainer Forst analyses these conflicts by reconstructing the philosophical and political discourse of toleration since antiquity. He demonstrates the diversity of the justifications and practices of toleration from the Stoics and early Christians to the present day and develops a systematic theory which he tests in discussions of contemporary conflicts over toleration.

Contributor Bio(s): Forst, Rainer: - Rainer Forst is Professor of Political Theory and Philosophy at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. In addition, he is Co-Director of the interdisciplinary Research Cluster 'Formation of Normative Orders' and a Permanent Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the Goethe University. He has also taught at the Free University in Berlin, the New School for Social Research in New York and Dartmouth College, and has been offered a full professorship at the University of Chicago and a visiting professorship at Harvard University, Massachusetts; he has also been invited to join the Institute for Advanced Studies in Berlin as a Fellow. In 2012, he received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, the highest honour awarded German researchers.