Toleration and the Challenges to Liberalism (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0367857464 ISBN 13: 9780367857462

Publisher: Routledge, 2020

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Johannes Drerup is Professor of Educational Theory and Philosophy of Education at the TU Dortmund, Germany and Guest Professor at the Free University of Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Gottfried Schweiger is Senior Researcher in the Centre for Ethics and Poverty Research at the University of Salzburg, Austria.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0367857464
• ISBN 13: 9780367857462
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 278
• Editor: Drerup Johannes, Schweiger Gottfried