Toleration: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) - Softcover

Murphy, Andrew

 
9780197664957: Toleration: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0197664954 ISBN 13: 9780197664957
Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

Toleration is one of the most foundational and contentious concepts in contemporary political discourse. Although its modern origins lie in the realm of religious dissent, toleration remains one of our most contentious and broad-ranging concepts, invoked in today's debates about race, gender, religion, sexuality, cultural identity, free speech, and civil liberties. Questions of toleration arise wherever unpopular groups face hostile environments and stand in need of protection from state interference or the actions of their neighbors.

Toleration can seem counterintuitive at first glance, since it involves a complex mixture of rejection and acceptance, combining disapproval - of particular individuals, groups, beliefs, and practices - on the one hand with legal and political guarantees for such groups on the other. Toleration has long been considered a cardinal virtue of liberalism, endorsed by central figures such as Locke, Mill, and Rawls. Although toleration has been criticized as unduly minimal, compared with more expansive terms such as recognition or acceptance, it has routinely played a key role in the protracted struggles of marginalized groups of various sorts (a necessary, if not always sufficient, condition for liberty). Toleration: A Very Short Introduction will concisely canvass the history, development, and contemporary global status of toleration as both a concept and a contested political and legal practice.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Andrew Murphy is Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan . He is the author of Liberty, Conscience, and Toleration: The Political Thought of William Penn and William Penn: A Life.

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Verlag
Oxford University Press Inc
Erscheinungsdatum
2025
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0197664954
ISBN 13 
9780197664957
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Anzahl der Seiten
160
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