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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790612803321

Autore

Newey Glen

Titolo

Toleration in political conflict / / Glen Newey [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013

ISBN

1-107-46164-2

1-139-89312-2

1-107-45953-2

1-107-46874-4

1-139-62886-0

1-107-47237-7

1-107-46523-0

1-107-47330-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 227 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

303.6

Soggetti

Toleration

Toleration - Political aspects

Democracy - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

; Introduction: toleration in trouble -- Tolerating politics -- Democratic toleration? -- Toleration as sedition -- The trouble with respect -- How not to tolerate religion -- Liberty, toleration, security -- Toleration and power -- Tolerating ourselves, tolerating terror -- Toleration, free speech and the right to lie.

Sommario/riassunto

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'état 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.