On Toleration

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"With characteristic elegance, Michael Walzer shows that toleration is not a philosophical principle with a single justification but a political practice with many faces. From the multinational empires of old to the immigrant societies of today, he draws wise lessons of caution, and of hope, for coping with the dilemmas of cultural pluralism. - MICHAEL J. SANDEL "I do not know of any work on toleration that approaches this in originality, insight, and common sense/ -JANE MANSBRIDGE "A wonderfully lucid piece 011 a very important topic. It is a pleasure to read, and displays that extremely rare combination of conceptual clarity and historical concreteness that distinguishes Michael Walzer s best work."" -BERNARD YACK
What kinds of political arrangements enable people from different national, racial, religious, or ethnic groups to live together in peace? In this book one of the most influential political theorists of our time discusses the politics of toleration. Michael Walzer... Tovább

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"With characteristic elegance, Michael Walzer shows that toleration is not a philosophical principle with a single justification but a political practice with many faces. From the multinational empires of old to the immigrant societies of today, he draws wise lessons of caution, and of hope, for coping with the dilemmas of cultural pluralism. - MICHAEL J. SANDEL "I do not know of any work on toleration that approaches this in originality, insight, and common sense/ -JANE MANSBRIDGE "A wonderfully lucid piece 011 a very important topic. It is a pleasure to read, and displays that extremely rare combination of conceptual clarity and historical concreteness that distinguishes Michael Walzer s best work."" -BERNARD YACK
What kinds of political arrangements enable people from different national, racial, religious, or ethnic groups to live together in peace? In this book one of the most influential political theorists of our time discusses the politics of toleration. Michael Walzer examines five "regimes of toleration 7-from multinational empires to immigrant societies-and describes the strengths and weaknesses of each regime, as well as the varying forms of toleration and exclusion each fosters. Walzer shows how power, class, and gender interact with religion, race, and ethnicity in the different regimes and discusses how toleration works- and how it should work-in multicultural societies like the United States. Walzer offers an eloquent defense of toleration, group differences, and pluralism, inoving quickly from theory to Vissza