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      • Rainer Forst, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 February 2013
      17 January 2013
      ISBN:
      9781139051200
      9780521885775
      9781316621677
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139051200
      Dimensions:
      (253 x 177 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.34kg, 662 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (254 x 178 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.13kg, 664 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Political Theory, History of Ideas, Politics and International Relations, Philosophy, Political Philosophy
      Series:
      Ideas in Context (103)
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    Subjects:
    Political Theory, History of Ideas, Politics and International Relations, Philosophy, Political Philosophy
    Series:
    Ideas in Context (103)
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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.

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    '… simply the most impressive philosophical work specifically on toleration that I have ever read …'

    John Horton Source: Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

    'From the Bible through the Church Fathers and the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, Reformation and Enlightenment, and into modernity, Forst demonstrates how efforts to theorize toleration turn into their opposite: the same conceptual resources that advanced toleration are later employed to advance intolerance.'

    Vincent Lloyd Source: Studies in Christian Ethics

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