Toleration and the Challenges to Liberalism

Gottfried Schweiger editor Johannes Drerup editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Published:20th Oct '20

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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.

"This work contains chapters on a wide variety of interesting conceptual questions regarding toleration as well as sustained treatment of some vitally important practical concerns that have been somewhat missed by the literature until now."Timothy Fowler, University of Bristol, UK

"At a time of heightened conflicts around the rise of extremist groups in societies world-wide, this volume provides timely and vigorous insights into the fraught relation between toleration and liberalism. The contributors engage with acuity and sensitivity historical and contemporary dilemmas over the role of tolerance within liberalism. This volume will provide crucial inspiration for scholars and researchers in the field."Monica Mookherjee, Keele University, UK

ISBN: 9780367857462

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Weight: 453g

270 pages