Chapter 1 Preface Chapter 2 Tolerance: An Impossible Virtue? Chapter 3 Puzzles and Paradoxes of Tolerance Chapter 4 Shades of Tolerance Chapter 5 The Circumstances of Tolerance Chapter 6 The Intolerable Chapter 7 Thomas Aquinas and John Locke on Toleration Chapter 8 Regimes on Toleration Chapter 9 A Liberal Argument for Tolerance Chapter 10 Objections ans Replies Chapter 11 Epilogue
Hans Oberdiek is professor of philosophy at Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.
Oberdiek has written a highly intelligible, well researched, and
closely argued book. His wide-ranging, sophisticated discussion of
the philosophical history of tolerance provides a liberal argument
for tolerance with a notable depth of scholarship.
*CHOICE*
Offers a welcomingly clear, tightly written, cerebrally
entertaining analysis of a notion Western liberals typically favor,
but rarely probe.
*The Philadelphia Inquirer*
A stimulating read.
*Ethics: An International Journal of Social, Political, and Legal
Philosophy*
Oberdiek's account is a welcome addition to the growing literature
on toleration, and his discussion of substantive or comprehensive
liberalism is fresh and insightful.
*Metaphilosophy*
We learn much from this book's thorough survey, detailed history,
and thoughtful discussion of an important and timely topic.
*The Philosophical Review*
The concept of tolerance is central to a range of pressing issues
in value theory and cultural studies. When
setting out his distinctive and original liberal treatment of it,
Oberdiek articulates philosophical challenges with which anyone in
the human studies will need to grapple. Any subsequent study of the
concept of tolerance will have to come to terms with Oberdiek's
careful and insightful analysis. This is required reading for both
professionals and students.
*Michael Krausz, Bryn Mawr College*
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