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This book offers an account of ten crucial moments in the history of ideas, which represent ten key moments of the discovery of pluralism. From the Indian emperor Ashoka to Origen and from Nicola Cusano to Las Casas, Montaigne, Lessing, giants who opened the way to the thought of tolerance, challenging the dogma of a unique truth dictated by authority, followed in this reconstruction by other glowing thinkers of the twentieth century, such as Horace Kallen, Margaret Mead, and Jacques Dupuis. These protagonists, each in their own way, battled against monism for the respect of differences and for the knowledge of otherness. This kind of hall of fame of pluralist thinkers ends with the most important figure of the pluralism of values, Isaiah Berlin, of whom an unpublished interview appears here for the first time in English. The volume is unique in this two-thousand-year-old variety of voices gathered under the denominator of cultural pluralism that they embody in the deepest and most challenging sense, often at the limits and beyond the limits of heresy. It is of great value and interest to scholars and students of theoretical, moral, political philosophy, sociology, comparative studies, comparative literature, religious diversity, religious studies, anthropology, and all those interested in the history of tolerance

Se habla mucho en Latinoamérica de la famosa "tercera vía" de Tony Blair, como si fuera (para los que la alaban) la solución novedosa, mica y milagrosa a los problemas de redefinición estratégica de la izquierda europea, y tal vez mundial, o más bien (para los que la denuncian) una nueva prueba de la naturaleza genéticamente traicionera de la social-democracia. La ingeniosa operación de relaciones públicas de Blair (aún más curiosa cuando se sabe que Gran-Bretaña, por una orgullosa conciencia de su propio y supuestamente inimitable excepcionalismo, raramente se propuso, como Francia, presentarse como modelo político universal) no se merece ni ese exceso de honor ni tan feroz crítica.