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Tocqueville und der Individualismus in der Demokratie
by Sarah Rebecca StrömelDie Demokratie ist weltweit in Gefahr. Nicht nur Angreifer von außen, sondern auch destabilisierende Phänomene im Inneren bringen ihre Fundamente ins Wanken. Der französische Demokratietheoretiker und Politiker Alexis de Tocqueville (1805-1859) hat sich bereits im 19. Jahrhundert mit den zentralen Herausforderungen der Demokratie befasst. In seiner ebenso scharfsinnigen wie umfassenden Analyse rückt er dabei den Individualismus ins Zentrum des Geschehens. Wie sich zeigt, lassen sich zentrale Gefahren der Demokratie - der Rückgang von Solidarität und ein schwindendes Gemeinschaftsgefühl in der Zivilgesellschaft, Politikverdrossenheit und ein Rückzug ins Private, die Omnipräsenz der öffentlichen Meinung und eine flächendeckende Einsamkeit - auf den Individualismus zurückführen. Im Individualismus findet sich damit nicht nur ein Phänomen, dass das eigentliche problème fondamental von Tocquevilles Demokratietheorie ist - eine Beschäftigung mit ihm liefert auch Antworten auf unsere heutigen Fragen, zeigt uns Tocqueville doch auch mögliche Wege aus der Krise der Demokratie. Seine Ideen sind heute aktueller denn je.
Tocqueville's Dilemmas, and Ours: Sovereignty, Nationalism, Globalization
by Ewa AtanassowHow Tocqueville’s ideas can help us build resilient liberal democracies in a divided worldHow can today’s liberal democracies withstand the illiberal wave sweeping the globe? What can revive our waning faith in constitutional democracy? Tocqueville’s Dilemmas, and Ours argues that Alexis de Tocqueville, one of democracy’s greatest champions and most incisive critics, can guide us forward.Drawing on Tocqueville’s major works and lesser-known policy writings, Ewa Atanassow shines a bright light on the foundations of liberal democracy. She argues that its prospects depend on how we tackle three dilemmas that were as urgent in Tocqueville’s day as they are in ours: how to institutionalize popular sovereignty, how to define nationhood, and how to grasp the possibility and limits of global governance. These are pivotal but often neglected dimensions of Tocqueville’s work, and this fresh look at his writings provides a powerful framework for addressing the tensions between liberalism and democracy in the twenty-first century.Recovering a richer liberalism capable of weathering today’s political storms, Tocqueville’s Dilemmas, and Ours explains how we can reclaim nationalism as a liberal force and reimagine sovereignty in a global age—and do so with one of democracy’s most discerning thinkers as our guide.
Tocqueville's Political Economy
by Richard SwedbergAlexis de Tocqueville (1805-59) has long been recognized as a major political and social thinker as well as historian, but his writings also contain a wealth of little-known insights into economic life and its connection to the rest of society. In Tocqueville's Political Economy, Richard Swedberg shows that Tocqueville had a highly original and suggestive approach to economics--one that still has much to teach us today. Through careful readings of Tocqueville's two major books and many of his other writings, Swedberg lays bare Tocqueville's ingenious way of thinking about major economic phenomena. At the center of Democracy in America, Tocqueville produced a magnificent analysis of the emerging entrepreneurial economy that he found during his 1831-32 visit to the United States. More than two decades later, in The Old Regime and the Revolution, Tocqueville made the complementary argument that it was France's blocked economy and society that led to the Revolution of 1789. In between the publication of these great works, Tocqueville also produced many lesser-known writings on such topics as property, consumption, and moral factors in economic life. When examined together, Swedberg argues, these books and other writings constitute an interesting alternative model of economic thinking, as well as a major contribution to political economy that deserves a place in contemporary discussions about the social effects of economics.
Tocqueville's Political and Moral Thought: New Liberalism (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought #Vol. 41)
by M.R.R OssewaardenFirst Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Tocqueville-Handbuch: Leben – Werk – Wirkung
by Oliver Hidalgo Norbert Campagna Skadi Siiri KrauseDas Handbuch gewährt einen umfassenden Überblick über Tocquevilles Leben, Werk und Wirkung auf dem aktuellen Stand der historischen, philosophischen und sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung. Dem äußerst facettenreichen, in Deutschland aber nach wie vor unterschätzten Autor widmet dieser Band eine ebenso kompakte wie systematische Darstellung, die auf der Basis eines strukturierten Zugriffs und unter Berücksichtigung aller seiner Schriften verschiedene Aspekte seines Denkens erfasst. Deutschsprachige Leserinnen und Leser können sich schnell und zielführend fundierte Informationen über Tocquevilles Theorien, seine zentralen Begriffe sowie die wichtigsten Einflüsse verschaffen. Zugleich dient das Handbuch als Kompass zur Einordnung von Tocquevilles Analysen in gegenwärtige Debatten und Themengebiete und gibt anschlussfähige Hinweise für die Konzeption von Projekten in Forschung und Lehre.
Tocqueville: Democracy in America
by Alexis De TocquevilleAlexis de Tocqueville, a young aristocratic French lawyer, came to the United States in 1831 to study its penitentiary systems. His nine-month visit and subsequent reading and reflection resulted in Democracy in America (1835-40), a landmark masterpiece of political observation and analysis. Tocqueville vividly describes the unprecedented social equality he found in America and explores its implications for European society in the emerging modern era. His book provides enduring insight into the political consequences of widespread property ownership, the potential dangers to liberty inherent in majority rule, the importance of civil institutions in an individualistic culture dominated by the pursuit of material self-interest, and the vital role of religion in American life, while prophetically probing the deep differences between the free and slave states. The clear, fluid, and vigorous translation by Arthur Goldhammer is the first to fully capture Tocqueville's achievements both as an accomplished literary stylist and as a profound political thinker.
Tocqueville: The Aristocratic Sources of Liberty
by Lucien JaumeA major intellectual biography of Toqueville that restores democracy in America to its essential contextMany American readers like to regard Alexis de Tocqueville as an honorary American and democrat—as the young French aristocrat who came to early America and, enthralled by what he saw, proceeded to write an American book explaining democratic America to itself. Yet, as Lucien Jaume argues in this acclaimed intellectual biography, Democracy in America is best understood as a French book, written primarily for the French, and overwhelmingly concerned with France. "America," Jaume says, "was merely a pretext for studying modern society and the woes of France." For Tocqueville, in short, America was a mirror for France, a way for Tocqueville to write indirectly about his own society, to engage French thinkers and debates, and to come to terms with France's aristocratic legacy.By taking seriously the idea that Tocqueville's French context is essential for understanding Democracy in America, Jaume provides a powerful and surprising new interpretation of Tocqueville's book as well as a fresh intellectual and psychological portrait of the author. Situating Tocqueville in the context of the crisis of authority in postrevolutionary France, Jaume shows that Tocqueville was an ambivalent promoter of democracy, a man who tried to reconcile himself to the coming wave, but who was also nostalgic for the aristocratic world in which he was rooted—and who believed that it would be necessary to preserve aristocratic values in order to protect liberty under democracy. Indeed, Jaume argues that one of Tocqueville's most important and original ideas was to recognize that democracy posed the threat of a new and hidden form of despotism.
Tocqueville’s Moderate Penal Reform (Recovering Political Philosophy)
by Emily Katherine FerkalukThis book presents an interpretive analysis of the major themes and purpose of Alexis de Tocqueville’s and Gustave de Beaumont’s first work, On the Penitentiary System, thereby offering new insights into Tocqueville as a moderate liberal statesman. The book explores Tocqueville’s thinking on penitentiaries as the best possible solution to recidivism, his approach to colonial imperialism, and his arguments on moral reformation of prisoners through a close reading of Tocqueville’s first published text. The unifying political concept of all three discussions is Tocqueville’s underlying concern to pursue moderation between institutional and imaginative extremes in order to maintain liberal values. In both thinking moderately and advocating for moderate political action, Tocqueville’s On the Penitentiary System renews an emphasis on the importance of civic engagement and the balance between philosophy and praxis.
Today's Moral Issues: Classic And Contemporary Perspectives
by Daniel BonevacDesigned for contemporary moral problems courses, Bonevac's Today's Moral Issues is unique in providing theoretical readings related to the contemporary issues readings that follow; students connect theory and practice, thereby making the theory interesting and relevant. <P><P>In addition to providing readings on contemporary topics, the book lends historical perspective to current moral issues with its unique inclusion of classic selections by philosophers such as Aristotle, Mill, Kant, and Locke.
Todesvorstellung von Heilberuflern: Methoden der Literaturzusammenfassung (Palliative Care und Forschung)
by Martin W. Schnell Christine Dunger Christian Schulz-QuachHeilberufler, d.h. Ärzt*innen, Pflegende und Vertreter anderer Professionen, die in der Versorgung sterbender Menschen und deren Angehöriger tätig sind, haben Vorstellungen vom Tod ausgebildet. Diese leiten die Behandlungsweise von sterbenden Menschen, da sie Antworten auf fundamentale Fragen geben. Was ist der Tod? Wann tritt ein Mensch in seine letzte Lebensphase ein? Todesvorstellungen sind meist Mischkonzepte. Wissenschaft, Berufserfahrung, Mythologie, Religion, allgemeine Werte gehen in sie ein. Die vorliegende Publikation erforscht die Todesvorstellungen von Heilberuflern und stellt sie in ihrer Diversität dar. Der Band führt dabei Methoden der Literaturzusammenfassung vor, die von fortgeschrittenen Studierenden, Doktoranden und jungen Forscher*innen verwendet werden können, um einen relevanten Forschungsstand zu dokumentieren. Eine wissenschaftshistorische und methodische Reflexion fundiert diese Vorstellung.
Todo Depende de Cómo lo Ves Tú: Es mirando que todo comienza
by Danilo H. GomesEn “Todo depende de Cómo lo Ves tú”, el autor ofrece una forma diferente de ver el mundo y los problemas de lo cotidiano. Basándose en la teología y en la fenomenología, famosa línea de pensamiento filosófico, el lector podrá reprogramar su mente para disfrutar de la vida de una forma menos complicada. De forma bien explicada y, en ciertas partes, graciosas, los antiguos pensamientos y teorías de científicos como William James, Edmund Husserl, Jean Paul Sartre y otros, son analizados y la forma como estos deben ser aplicados en lo cotidiano son expuestos en las páginas de esta obra. Tu mirada ordena a tu forma de vivir la vida y esta puede ser modificada, por tanto, sumérgete en este libro y cambia tu forma de ver el mundo.
Todo a todas horas en todas partes: Cómo nos hicimos Posmodernos
by Stuart JeffriesUn relato que nos habla como pocos sobre quiénes somos. «Espléndidamente accesible. Jeffries demuestra en estas páginas un conocimiento notable de la cultura posmoderna».Terry Eagleton, The Guardian La nuestra es una era marcada por la opinión, en la que no parece haber cabida para la objetividad. Nos encontramos sumergidos en aquello que en teoría política se ha definido desde los años setenta como «posmodernidad», una época marcada por movimientos sociales y artísticos que intentaron subvertir, por medio del humor, la provocación, la ironía y el nihilismo, las jerarquías establecidas y los valores tradicionales. Pero en la hoja de ruta de la posmodernidad se cruzó el neoliberalismo, que encontró en esta nueva erade la irreverencia un terreno fértil donde asentar una sociedad individualista y regida por el libre mercado. Hoy parecemos convencidos de que no hay alternativa. Stuart Jeffries rastrea los orígenes de la posmodernidad y del neoliberalismo para entender sus raíces y el impacto que han tenido enel mundo. Muestra las contradicciones de una sociedad que, en su lucha por la libertad individual, ha favorecido el nacimiento de nuevos totalitarismos, y analiza fenómenos tan variados como la experimentación de David Bowie con el género o las políticas thatcherianas contra el estado del bienestar. Ejemplos de la cultura popular como la novela Amo a Dick de Chris Kraus, la carrera delos Sex Pistols o los atentados del 11 de septiembre sirven de punto de partida para explicar el frenético y enmarañado desarrollo de los acontecimientos de las últimas décadas. Esta obra nos recuerda el alto precio que hemos pagado los seres humanos por virar hacia la emancipación individualista, y que quizá es hora de orientar el rumbo hacia sistemas más colectivos que aseguren nuestra supervivencia. La crítica ha dicho:«Jeffries es una rareza: un periodista que demuestra un gran interés por la teoría cultural. Escribe sobre ella con gran rigor, pero de manera accesible para los no expertos. Agudo y entretenido».The Times Literary Supplement«Erudito y entretenido».Spectrum Culture«Intrigante».William Davies, New Statesman «Erudito y entretenido... Todo a todas horas en todas partes es una historia de terror detallada y convincente de la fusión de los dos paradigmas intelectuales que predominan el último medio siglo».Ryne Clos, Spectrum Culture«Nos muestra a un Stuart Jeffries que examina de manera simple y atractiva cómo la pérdida de valores y el pensamiento crítico nos ha llevado hacia un mundo irracional de posverdad».Choice «Un libro dinámico y chispeante».Michael Rosen, BBC Front Row«No es solo pedagógico, es una lectura placentera... Brillante y entretenida».Lisa Downing, The Financial Times «Fascinante y detallado con exquisitez».Christopher McMichael, New Frame
Tokens: The Future of Money in the Age of the Platform
by Rachel O'Dwyer**Longlisted for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year**---Platform capitalism is coming for the money in your pocketWherever you look, money is being re-placed by tokens. Digital platforms are issuing new kinds of money-like things: phone credit, shares, gift vouchers, game tokens, customer data—the list goes on. But what does it mean when online platforms become the new banks? What new types of control and discrimination emerge when money is tied to specific apps or actions, politics or identities?Tokens opens up this new and expanding world. Exploring the history of extra-monetary economies, Rachel O&’Dwyer shows that private and grassroots tokens have always haunted the real economy. But as the large tech platforms issue new money-like instruments, tokens are suddenly everywhere. Amazon&’s Turk workers are getting paid in gift cards. Online streamers trade in wishlists. Foreign remittances are sent via phone credit. Bitcoin, gift cards, NFTs, customer data, and game tokens are the new money in an evolving economy. It is a development challenging the balance of power between online empires and the state. Tokens may offer a flexible even subversive route to compensation. But for the platforms themselves they can be a means of amassing frightening new powers.An essential read for anyone concerned with digital money, inequality, and the future of the economy.
Tolerance Is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial
by Saree MakdisiHow denial sustains the liberal imagination of a progressive and democratic Israel. The question that this book aims to answer might seem simple: how can a violent project of dispossession and discrimination be imagined, felt, and profoundly believed in as though it were the exact opposite––an embodiment of sustainability, multicultural tolerance, and democratic idealism? Despite well-documented evidence of racism and human rights abuse, Israel has long been embraced by the most liberal sectors of European and American society as a manifestation of the progressive values of tolerance, plurality, inclusivity, and democracy, and hence a project that can be passionately defended for its lofty ideals. Tolerance Is a Wasteland argues that the key to this miraculous act of political alchemy is a very specific form of denial. Here the Palestinian presence in, and claim to, Palestine is not simply refused or covered up, but negated in such a way that the act of denial is itself denied. The effects of destruction and repression are reframed, inverted into affirmations of liberal virtues that can be passionately championed. In Tolerance Is a Wasteland, Saree Makdisi explores many such acts of affirmation and denial in a range of venues: from the haunted landscape of thickly planted forests covering the ruins of Palestinian villages forcibly depopulated in 1948; to the theater of "pinkwashing" as Israel presents itself to the world as a gay-friendly haven of cultural inclusion; to the so-called Museum of Tolerance being built on top of the ruins of a Muslim cemetery in Jerusalem, which was methodically desecrated in order to clear the space for this monument to "human dignity." Tolerance Is a Wasteland reveals the system of emotional investments and curated perceptions that makes this massive project of cognitive dissonance possible.
Tolerance among the Virtues
by John R. BowlinIn a pluralistic society such as ours, tolerance is a virtue--but it doesn't always seem so. Some suspect that it entangles us in unacceptable moral compromises and inequalities of power, while others dismiss it as mere political correctness or doubt that it can safeguard the moral and political relationships we value. Tolerance among the Virtues provides a vigorous defense of tolerance against its many critics and shows why the virtue of tolerance involves exercising judgment across a variety of different circumstances and relationships--not simply applying a prescribed set of rules.Drawing inspiration from St. Paul, Aquinas, and Wittgenstein, John Bowlin offers a nuanced inquiry into tolerance as a virtue. He explains why the advocates and debunkers of toleration have reached an impasse, and he suggests a new way forward by distinguishing the virtue of tolerance from its false look-alikes, and from its sibling, forbearance. Some acts of toleration are right and good, while others amount to indifference, complicity, or condescension. Some persons are able to draw these distinctions well and to act in accord with their better judgment. When we praise them as tolerant, we are commending them as virtuous. Bowlin explores what that commendation means.Tolerance among the Virtues offers invaluable insights into how to live amid differences we cannot endorse--beliefs we consider false, actions we think are unjust, institutional arrangements we consider cruel or corrupt, and persons who embody what we oppose.
Tolerance: Experiments with Freedom in the Netherlands (Law and Philosophy Library #124)
by Cees MarisThis book presents a collection of philosophical essays on freedom and tolerance in the Netherlands. It explores liberal freedom and its limits in areas such as freedom of speech, public reason, sexual morality, euthanasia, drugs policy, and minority rights. The book takes Dutch practices as exemplary test cases for the principled discussions on these subjects from the perspective of political liberalism. Indeed, the Netherlands may be viewed as a social laboratory in human tolerance. During the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s, Holland took the lead in a global emancipation process towards a society based on equal freedom. It was the first country to legalize euthanasia, soft drugs and gay marriage. In the final sections, the book examines the question of whether the political murders on the politician Pim Fortuyn and the film director Theo van Gogh, the reactions to Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s film Submission, as well as the success of the populist politician Geert Wilders are signs of the end of Dutch tolerance. Although it recognizes that the political climate has taken a conservative turn, the book shows that the Netherlands still shows remarkable tolerance.
Tolerance: The Beacon of the Enlightenment
by Translated by Caroline Warman et al.Inspired by Voltaire’s advice that a text needs to be concise to have real influence, this anthology contains fiery extracts by forty eighteenth-century authors, from the most famous philosophers of the age to those whose brilliant writings are less well-known. These passages are immensely diverse in style and topic, but all have in common a passionate commitment to equality, freedom, and tolerance. Each text resonates powerfully with the issues our world faces today. Tolerance was first published by the Société française d’étude du dix-huitième siècle (the French Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies) in the wake of the Charlie Hebdo assassinations in January 2015 as an act of solidarity and as a response to the surge of interest in Enlightenment values. With the support of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, it has now been translated by over 100 students and tutors of French at Oxford University.
Tolerantziari buruzko tratatua
by François M. Arouet Voltaire Irati Bereau Baleztena1763ko otsailaren 20an, eskutitz hau idatzi zidaten Languedocetik: Tolerantziari buruz idatzi duen lana errukiz eta egiaz beterik dagoela iruditzen zait, baina beldur naiz ez ote dion mesede baino kalte gehiago egingo Calas sendiari. Izan ere, gurpilean hilaraztea agindu zuten zortzi epaileak erresumindu egin ditzake. Berorren liburua sutan erretzeko eskatuko diote parlamentuari, eta fanatikoek ?ez baitira desagertuko? amorru biziz erantzungo diote arrazoiaren ahotsari (?). Hauxe izan zen nire erantzuna: Tolosako zortzi epaileek, nahi badute, nire liburua erretzea agin dezakete; ez dago hori baino gauza errazagorik. Azken batean, Lettres provinciales gutunak ere erre zituzten, eta nire lana baino askoz ere baliotsuagoak ziren, ezbairik gabe. Norbera libre da gustuko ez dituen liburuak eta paperak etxean erretzeko.
Toleranz – was müssen wir aushalten? (#philosophieorientiert)
by Dominik BalgToleranz – eine Haltung, die in westlichen Gesellschaften wie kaum eine andere mit Nachdruck gefordert und mit Vehemenz verteidigt wird. Insbesondere eine tolerante Haltung gegenüber fremden Ansichten, Standpunkten und Überzeugungen wird von vielen als unverzichtbare Bedingung für das Gelingen eines demokratischen Miteinanders angesehen. Gleichzeitig wird kontrovers diskutiert, wo eigentlich die Grenzen einer toleranten Pluralität verschiedener Meinungen gezogen werden sollen. Welche Ansichten sind noch tolerabel, und welche nicht? Mit Blick auf aktuelle gesellschaftliche Diskurse und vor dem Hintergrund umfassender Kenntnisse der philosophischen Toleranzforschung überprüft Dominik Balg kontrovers diskutierte Minderheitenpositionen auf ihre Tolerierbarkeit und entwickelt vor diesem Hintergrund einen klaren Kriterienkatalog, mit Hilfe dessen sich die Grenzen einer toleranten Haltung sinnvoll ziehen lassen. Darüber hinaus widmet er sich der Frage, was eigentlich jenseits unserer Toleranzgrenzen liegen sollte und wie man verantwortungsvoll mit Positionen umgehen kann, die nicht mehr tolerabel sind.
Tolerating Strangers in Intolerant Times: Psychoanalytic, Political and Philosophical Perspectives
by Roger KennedyIn this interdisciplinary and wide-ranging study, Roger Kennedy looks at the roots of tolerance and intolerance as well as the role of the stranger and strangeness in provoking basic fears about our identity. He argues that a fear of a loss of attachment to one’s home might account for many prejudiced and intolerant attitudes to refugees and migrants; that basic fears about being displaced by so-called ‘strangers’ from our precious and precarious sense of a psychic home can tear communities apart, as well as lead to discrimination against those who appear to be different. Present day intolerance includes fears about the ‘hordes’ of immigrants confused with realistic fears about terrorist attacks, populist fears about loss of cultural integrity and with it a sense of powerlessness, and fearful debates about such basics as truth, including the so-called ‘post truth’ issue. Such fears, as explored in the book, mirror old arguments going back centuries to the early enlightenment thinkers and even before, when the parameters of discussion about tolerance were mainly around religious tolerance. There is urgency about addressing these kinds of issue once more at a time when the ‘ground rules’ of what makes for a civilized society seem to be under threat. Kennedy argues that society needs a ‘tolerance process’, in which critical thinking and respectful judgment can take place in an atmosphere of debate and reasonably open communication, when issues around what can and cannot be tolerated about different beliefs, practices and attitudes in people in our own and other cultures, are examined and debated. Tolerating Strangers in Intolerant Times, with the help of psychoanalytic, literary, social and political thinking, looks at what such a tolerance process could look like in a world increasingly prone to intolerance and prejudice. It will appeal to psychoanalysts as well as scholars of politics and philosophy.
Toleration and Freedom from Harm: Liberalism Reconceived (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy)
by Andrew Jason CohenToleration matters to us all. It contributes both to individuals leading good lives and to societies that are simultaneously efficient and just. There are personal and social matters that would be improved by taking toleration to be a fundamental value. This book develops and defends a full account of toleration—what it is, why and when it matters, and how it should be manifested in a just society. Cohen defends a normative principle of toleration grounded in a new conception of freedom as freedom from harm. He goes on to argue that the moral limits of toleration have been reached only when freedom from harm is impinged. These arguments provide support for extensive toleration of a wide range of individual, familial, religious, cultural, and market activities. Toleration Matters will be of interest to political philosophers and theorists, legal scholars, and those interested in matters of social justice.
Toleration and Identity: Foundations in Early Modern Thought
by Ingrid CreppellRecently, there has been a notable rise in interest in the idea of "toleration", a rise that Ingrid Creppell argues comes more from distressing political developments than positive ones, and almost all of them are related to issues of identity: rampant genocide in the 20th Century, the resurgence of religious fundamentalism around the world; and ethnic-religious wars in Eastern Europe and the Middle East. In Toleration and Identity, Creppell argues that a contemporary ethic of toleration must include recognition of identity issues, and that the traditional liberal ideal of toleration is not sufficiently understood if we define it strictly as one of individual rights and freedom beliefs. Moving back and forth between contemporary debates and the foundational writings of Bodin, Montaigne, Lock, and Defoe, Toleration and Identity provides a fresh perspective on two key ideas deeply connected to current philosophical debates and political issues.
Toleration and Its Limits: NOMOS XLVIII (NOMOS - American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy #33)
by Jeremy Waldron Melissa S. WilliamsToleration has a rich tradition in Western political philosophy. It is, after all, one of the defining topics of political philosophy—historically pivotal in the development of modern liberalism, prominent in the writings of such canonical figures as John Locke and John Stuart Mill, and central to our understanding of the idea of a society in which individuals have the right to live their own lives by their own values, left alone by the state so long as they respect the similar interests of others. Toleration and Its Limits, the latest addition to the NOMOS series, explores the philosophical nuances of the concept of toleration and its scope in contemporary liberal democratic societies. Editors Melissa S. Williams and Jeremy Waldron carefully compiled essays that address the tradition’s key historical figures; its role in the development and evolution of Western political theory; its relation to morality, liberalism, and identity; and its limits and dangers. Contributors: Lawrence A. Alexander, Kathryn Abrams, Wendy Brown, Ingrid Creppell, Noah Feldman, Rainer Forst, David Heyd, Glyn Morgan, Glen Newey, Michael A. Rosenthal, Andrew Sabl, Steven D. Smith, and Alex Tuckness.
Toleration and the Challenges to Liberalism (Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy)
by Johannes Drerup Gottfried SchweigerThis 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.
Toleration, Diversity, and Global Justice (G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects)
by Kok-Chor TanThe "comprehensive liberalism" defended in this book offers an alternative to the narrower "political liberalism" associated with the writings of John Rawls. By arguing against making tolerance as fundamental a value as individual autonomy, and extending the reach of liberalism to global society, it opens the way for dealing more adequately with problems of human rights and economic inequality in a world of cultural pluralism.