English world rights (Cambridge UP), Spanish world rights (Paidos), Chinese simplex rights (Shanghai People’s Publishing House), Korea (The National Research Foundation of Korea)
A critical examination of the concept makes clear, however, that its content and evaluation are profoundly contested matters and thus that the concept itself stands in conflict. For some,...
The concept of toleration plays a central role in pluralistic societies. It designates a stance which permits conflicts over beliefs and practices to persist while at the same time defusing them, because it is based on reasons for coexistence in conflict – that is, in continuing dissension.
A critical examination of the concept makes clear, however, that its content and evaluation are profoundly contested matters and thus that the concept itself stands in conflict. For some, toleration was and is an expression of mutual respect in spite of far-reaching differences, for others, a condescending, potentially repressive attitude and practice. Rainer Forst analyses these conflicts by reconstructing the philosophical and political discourse of toleration since antiquity. He demonstrates the diversity of the justifications and practices of toleration from the Stoics and early Christians to the present day and develops a systematic theory which he tests in discussions of contemporary conflicts over toleration. (book description from the English edition by Cambridge University Press)
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Rainer Forst
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The Noumenal Republic
Chinese simplex rights (Shanghai People’s Publishing House)

Normativity and Power
People are justificatory beings; they orient themselves according to reasons. The rules and institutions with which they comply are based on historically formed justification-narratives and...
English world rights (Oxford UP), Chinese simplex rights (Shanghai People’s Publishing House), Italy (Mimesis)

Justification and Critique
English world rights (Polity), Spanish world rights (Katz), Brazilian Portuguese rights (UNESP), Arabic world rights (Librairie Orientale), Italy (Trauben)

The Right to Justification
English world rights (Columbia UP), Chinese simplex rights (Shanghai People’s Publishing House)

Contexts of Justice
English world rights (California UP), Chinese simplex rights (Shanghai People’s Publishing House), Brazilian Portuguese rights (Boitempo)