Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: How to Write About Toleration -- Chapter One: Personal Attitudes and political Arrangements -- Chapter Two: Five Regimes of Toleration -- Multinational Empires -- International Society -- Consociations -- Nation-States -- Immigrant Societies -- Summary -- Chapter Three: Complicated Cases -- France -- Israel -- Canada -- The European Community -- Chapter Four: Practical Issues -- Power -- Class -- Gender -- Religion -- Education -- Civil Religion -- Tolerating the Intolerant -- Chapter Five: Modern and Postmodern Toleration -- The Modern Projects -- Postmodernity¿ -- Epilogue: Reflections on American Multiculturalism -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
The idea of toleration as the appropriate response to difference has been central to liberal thought since Locke. Although the subject has been widely and variously explored, there has been reluctance to acknowledge the new meaning that current debates on toleration have when compared with those at its origins in the early modern period and with subsequent discussions about pluralism and freedom of expression.This collection starts from a clear recognition of the new terms of the debate. It recognises that a new academic consensus is slowly emerging on a view of tolerance that is reasonable in two senses. Firstly of reflecting the capacity of seeing the other's viewpoint, secondly on the relatively limited extent to which toleration can be granted. It reflects the cross-thematic and cross-disciplinary nature of such discussions, dissecting a number of debates such as liberalism and communitarianism, public and private, multiculturalism and the politics of identity, and a number of disciplines: moral, legal and political philosophy, historical and educational studies, anthropology, sociology and psychology.A group of distinguished authors explore the complexities emerging from the new debate. They scrutinise, with analytical sophistication, the philosophical foundation, the normative content and the broadly political implications of a new culture of toleration for diverse societies. Specific issues considered include the toleration of religious discrimination in employment, city life and community, social ethos, publicity, justice and reason and ethics.The book is unique in resolutely looking forward to the theoretical and practical challenges posed by commitment to a conception of toleration demanding empathy and understanding in an ever-diversifying world.
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Arguments for toleration -- Trust and the rationality of toleration -- The conversion to toleration -- Establishing toleration -- Of socinians : toleration and the limits of trust -- Of homosexuals : trust and the practices of public reason -- Epilogue: Balancing trust and toleration.
In this 2002 book, Anna Elisabetta Galeotti examines the most intractable problems which toleration encounters and argues that what is really at stake is not religious or moral disagreement but the unequal status of different social groups. Liberal theories of toleration fail to grasp this and consequently come up with normative solutions that are inadequate when confronted with controversial cases. Galeotti proposes, as an alternative, toleration as recognition, which addresses the problem of according equal respect to groups as well as equal liberty to individuals. She offers an interpretation that is both a revision and an expansion of liberal theory, in which toleration constitutes an important component not only of a theory of justice, but also of the politics of identity. Her study will appeal to a wide range of readers in political philosophy, political theory, and law
These essays relate philosophical questions about the meaning and justification of toleration to debates about such issues as religious freedom, racial discrimination, pornography and censorship.