Tolerance Between Intolerance and the Intolerable (Diogenes Library) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1571811362 ISBN 13: 9781571811363

Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 1996

Synopsis

It seems more urgent than ever before to fend off the rising wave of intolerance and at the same time determine the nature of tolerance and its limits. As Ricoeur says in his Foreword: "Tolerance is a tricky subject: too easy or too difficult. It is indeed too easy to deplore intolerance, without putting oneself into question, oneself and the different allegiances with which each person identifies." In order to explore these complexities, he has gathered together a number of prominent thinkers from various parts of the world and areas of activity and invited them to reflect on the "obstacles and limits to tolerance." The Declaration of Principles on Tolerance, issued by the United Nations in 1995, rounds up this remarkable collection of essays.

Contributors: Norberto Bobbio, Vaclav Havel, Jeanne Hersch, Bernard Williams, Octavio Paz, Ghislain Waterlot, Antoine Garapon, Mario Bettati, Yehudi Menuhin, Ramin Jahanbegloo, Abdelwahab Bouhdiba, Hans K&uumlng, Wole Soyinka, Ionna Kuçuradi, Monique Canto-Sperber, Paul Ricoeur, Desmond Tutu.

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About the Author

Paul Ricoeur was, until his retirement in 1988, Professor of Philosophy, resp. the History of Philosophy, at the universities of Strasbourg, Paris and Chicago.

Edition details

• Publisher: Berghahn Books, Incorporated
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1571811362
• ISBN 13: 9781571811363
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 220
• Editor: Ricoeur Paul