| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Machine generated contents note: 1. Tolerant Society -- Three Challenges for Toleration -- Diversity -- Accommodating Diversity -- Justifying Toleration -- Traditional Liberalism and Toleration -- Two Types of Agent: State and Citizen -- Role of Principles -- Outline of the Book -- 2. Understanding Political Toleration -- Being ̀Tolerant' -- Specific Acts of Tolerance -- Toleration as a General Political Practice -- Toleration and State Neutrality -- Further Challenges to Political Toleration -- Understanding State Objection -- Locating State Power -- ̀Symmetry Thesis' -- Alternative Solutions to the Problem of Political Toleration -- Separating the Site of Power from the Site of Objection -- Transformative Ideals -- ̀Respect Conception' of Toleration -- Conclusion -- 3. Active Indifference: A Neutral and Accommodating State -- Challenging Neutrality -- Conceptions of Neutrality -- Why Care about Neutrality? -- Active Indifference -- Why ̀Hands Off' Is Better than ̀Hands On' -- Identity and Recognition -- Not Distinguishing between Mere Preferences and Deeply Held Beliefs -- Conclusion -- 4. Tolerance and the Citizen -- Act of Tolerance -- Objecting to Some Thing -- Power (Including Both Opportunity and Willingness) to Interfere Negatively with the Thing or Its Holder -- Intentionally Not Negatively Interfering with the Thing or Its Holder -- Reducing Intolerance -- Tolerance and the State -- Tolerant Disposition -- Conclusion -- 5. Against Respecting Each Others' Differences -- Obligation to Respect Difference? -- Appraisal Respect for Difference -- Recognition Respect for Difference -- Directly Respecting Particular Differences -- Respect-for-Persons Entailing Respect for Difference -- Trying to Respect -- Being Deemed ̀Respect-worthy' -- Tolerance and Respect -- Conclusion -- 6. Practising Toleration -- Weightiness of Neutrality -- Welfare Redistribution -- Defending the Nation -- Dealing with Difference -- Mosques -- Driver's Licence Photos -- Discretion -- Indigeneity -- Boundaries of Toleration -- Conclusion -- 7. Conclusion |
| Summary |
This volume provides a new, original, and provocative take on the question of toleration and its application to the politics of contemporary diversity |
| Notes |
This edition previously issued in print: 2017 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Audience |
Specialized |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 13, 2016) |
| Subject |
Toleration.
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Cultural pluralism.
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Cultural pluralism
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Toleration
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191818516 |
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0191818518 |
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