Tolerance in the 21st Century Prospects and Challenges

by Moreno-Riano, Gerson; Avery, Patricia G.; Boettke, Peter J.; Budzisewski, J; Finkel, Steve; Fotion, Nick; Golebiowska, Ewa; Leeson, Peter T.; Neville, Robert Cummins; Resnick, David; Shamir, Michal; Syse, Henrik; Weissberg, Roger P.

• ISBN13: 9780739108680
• ISBN10: 0739108689
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-04-03
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

Tolerance in the 21st Century investigates some of the key philosophical and practical dilemmas surrounding the implementation and realization of tolerance in the 21st century. Each essay is written by expert scholars who seek to share their particular expertise with some of the most important and essential questions which prospects for tolerance raise. This collection is certain to delight scholars of political and democratic theory, political participation and citizenship, and American politics.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Tolerance in the Twenty-First Century: An Introduction	1	(12)
Gerson Moreno-Riano
The Many Facets of Tolerance	13	(30)
Robert Weissberg
Understanding Tolerance	43	(8)
Nick Fotion
On Having Done With It: The Death of Modernist Tolerance	51	(16)
J. Budziszewski
Culture, Religion, Nation-States, and Reason in the Politics of Tolerance	67	(14)
Robert Cummings Neville
Tolerance, Identity, and the Problem of Citizenship	81	(16)
Gerson Moreno-Riano
Conflict and Political Tolerance in Israel	97	(16)
Michal Shamir
Tamy Sagiv-Schifter
Gender and Tolerance	113	(26)
Ewa Golebiowska
Youth, Schooling, and the Development of Political Tolerance	139	(14)
Pat Avery
Political Tolerance and Civic Education in Developing Democracies	153	(36)
Steven E. Finkel
Tolerance as a Criterion for Just War	189	(12)
Henrik Syse
Liberal Tolerance as Robust Political Economy	201	(12)
Peter T. Leeson
Peter J. Boettke
Tolerance and the Internet	213	(8)
David Resnick
Selected Bibliography	221	(18)
List of Contributors	239	(4)
Index	243