In this 2002 book, Anna Elisabetta Galeotti examines the most intractable problems which toleration encounters and argues that what is really at stake is not re

The topic of recognition has come to occupy a central place in debates in social and political theory. Developed by George Herbert Mead and Charles Taylor, it h

Recently, there has been a notable rise in interest in the idea of "toleration", a rise that Ingrid Creppell argues comes more from distressing political develo

This book represents the most comprehensive historical and systematic study of the theory and practice of toleration ever written.

The idea of toleration as the appropriate response to difference has been central to liberal thought since Locke. Although the subject has been widely and vario