Difference and Dissent

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...this book offers important reformulations of tolerance. ...by demonstrating the broad array of theories of tolerance, this book opens promising paths of inquiry for political philosophy... -- Pascal Massie, Vanderbilt University Albert E. Gunn and Staff Nederman shows that there is a wide 'diversity of intellectual frameworks that have generated viable defenses of toleration'. Theolody Digest, Vol.45 N0. 3 Fall 1998 The overall contribution of Difference and Dissent is to recognize communitarian and natural law foundations of toleration theory and to encourage us to ask percislely whom a theorist is tolerating, whethers/he intends temporary concordance or permanent toleration and to whom the theorist is not extending toleration. -- Maryanne Cline Horowitz, Occidental College & UC of Los Angeles American Political Science Review All the essays inDifference and Dissentare informative and intellectually stimulating. -- Hilmar M. Pabel, Simon Frasher University H-Net: Humanities and Social Science Reviews Online The editors of this collection of lively, interesting, and accessible essays are said to be congratulated on the coherence created by the common focus uniting the contributions... This is clearly a quite different defence of toleration from that which makes free speech an inalienable individual right... [offers] some alternatives to the conventional way of thinking about tolerance and [gives] us some practice in thinking about it in ways and contexts different fom the dominant modern narrative. -- Ruth Abbey, University of Notre Dame Journal Of Religious History This volume is a happy antidote to those who think that the discussion of toleration in the modern world starts with John Locke. This collection brings together eleven essays that discuss kinds of toleration theories from the middle ages through the seventeenth century in different cultures, indicating that the idea of toleration has a much richer and interesting history than we are usually told about. -- Richard H. Popkin, editor of the Columbia History of Western Philosophy ...this book offers important reformulations of tolerance. ...by demonstrating the broad array of theories of tolerance, this book opens promising paths of inquiry for political philosophy. -- Pascal Massie, Vanderbilt University Albert E. Gunn and Staff These essays force us to acknowledge tha essential artificiality of all theories of tolerance, while at the same time encouraging us to choose whatever ideological matter and tools we need to promote tolerance as well as a sense of reponsibilty in our dealings with others. -- Charles F. Briggs, Georgia Southern University Journal of Church & State, Vol. 40, No.3, Summer 1998 These 11 essays show that there is a wide 'diversity of intellectual frameworks that have generated viable defenses of toleration.' Heiser These essays address the political issue of the millennium: how to ground a pluralist society. -- Antony Black, University of Dundee Political Studies Review, Vol.44, No. 4, September 1998 ...eleven essays which form a worthwhile addition to the now extensive literature on toleration before the Enlightenment. ...Glen Burgess in an excellent analysis of Hobbes's perspective on toleration... ...Lauren's own thought-provoking essay on Spinoza and his possible influence on Locke. -- Diarmaid Macculloch, St. Cross College, Oxford Ehr, Apr. 1999