Making Sense of Toleration

This book brings together a collection of interviews and conversations with leading scholars across different disciplines and areas of research including moral and political philosophy, history, sociology, political theory, psychology, and jurisprudence, among others. It provides an authoritative presentation of contemporary accounts of toleration, their conceptual foundations, and a comprehensive presentation of the different concepts most commonly associated with it (e.g. civility, dignity, coercion, harm, conflict, disagreement, secularism, power, domination, trust, non-interference, neutrality, fairness, pluralism, respect, recognition and ultimately diversity itself). The interviews and conversations published in this volume address some of the most pressing controversies on toleration (and related issues) at both the theoretical and practical levels. Alongside customary refinements of arguments and positions usually embedded in academic conversations, these interviews provide unique insights into the 'behind the scenes' on one of the central topics in contemporary scholarly research. Mitja Sardoc is a researcher at the Educational Research Institute in Ljubljana, Slovenia, where he is a member of the Educational Research program and a researcher at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana. His research interests include citizenship education, patriotism, multiculturalism, toleration, radicalization and violent extremism, education policy, talents and distributive justice, and equality of opportunity.

Mitja Sardoc is a researcher at the Educational Research Institute in Ljubljana, Slovenia, where he is a member of the Educational Research program and a researcher at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana. His research interests include citizenship education, patriotism, multiculturalism, toleration, radicalization and violent extremism, education policy, talents and distributive justice, and equality of opportunity.

Chapter 1: Making Sense of Toleration: An Introduction-Mitja Sardoc.- Chapter 2: Toleration, Pluralism and Liberal Democracy: An Interview with Peter Jones.- Chapter 3: The Grounds of Tolerance, and its Limits: An Interview with Thomas M. Scanlon.- Chapter 4: Problems with Toleration: An Interview with Charles Larmore.- Chapter 5: The Justification of Toleration: An Interview with Rainer Forst.- Chapter 6:Toleration and Civility: An Interview with Teresa M. Bejan.- Chapter 7: Historical Perspectives on Toleration: An Interview with Benjamin J. Kaplan.- Chapter 8: Toleration as an Ideal of Public Ethics: An Interview with Emanuela Ceva.- Chapter 9:Multiculturalism Re-examined: An Interview with Tariq Modood.- Chapter 10: Toleration, Respect and Recognition: An Interview with Sune Laegaard.- Chapter 11: Toleration as Recognition Re-examined: An Interview with Anna Elisabetta Galeotti.- Chapter 12:How to Take Tolerance Seriously: An Interview with Bernd Simon.- Chapter 13:'The Meaning and Value of Toleration: Common Conceptual Misconceptions, False Criticism, and Alleged Paradoxes': An Interview with Yossi Nehushtan.- Chapter 14: The Dark Side of Tolerance: An Interview with Wendy Brown.