Toleration in Political Conflict (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781107040328)

Political disputes over toleration are endemic, while toleration as a political value seems opposed to those of civic equality, neutrality and sometimes democracy. 'Toleration in Political Conflict' sets out to understand toleration as both politically awkward and indispensable. The book exposes the incoherence of Rawlsian reasonable pluralist justifications of toleration, and shows that toleration cannot be fully reconciled with liberal political values. While raison d' tat concerns very often overshadow debates over toleration, these debates - for example about terrorism - need not be framed as a conflict between toleration and security. Framing them in this way tends to obscure objectionable behaviour by tolerators themselves, and their reliance on asymmetric power. Glen Newey concludes by sketching a picture of politics as dependent on free speech which, he argues, is entailed by the demands of free association. That in turn suggests that questions of toleration are inescapable within the conditions of politics itself.

Author: Glen Newey
ISBN-10: 1107040329
ISBN-13: 9781107040328
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/03/2013
Pages: 234
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.10h x 5.90w x 0.90d