Toleration, power and the right to justification : Rainer Forst in dialogue / Rainer Forst ; with responses from Teresa M. Bejan [and six others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Forst, Rainer, 1964- author.

Series:

Critical powers.

Critical powers

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Toleration.

Power (Social sciences).

Justification (Ethics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 225 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2020.

Summary:

This volume introduces Rainer Forst's critical theory of toleration, offering a development of his major work 'Toleration in Conflict' with critical engagement from a range of outstanding interlocutors, including Chandran Kukathas, Melissa S. Williams and Patchen Markell.

Contents:

Preface / Rainer Forst

part I. Lead essay. Toleration, progress and power / Rainer Forst

part II. Responses. What's the use? Rainer Forst and the history of toleration / Teresa M. Bejan

Let's get radical: extending the reach of Baylean (and Forstian) toleration / Chandran Kukathas

Tales of toleration / John Horton

Overcoming toleration? / Daniel Weinstock

On turning away from justification / Melissa S. Williams

Power, attention and the tasks of critical theory / Patchen Markell

Power, justification and vindication / David Owen

part III. Reply. The dialectics of toleration and the power of reason(s): reply to my critics / Rainer Forst.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on March 31, 2026).

ISBN:

9781526105981

1526105985

9781526148339

1526148331

OCLC:

1150108859