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Review Essay: Recent Work on Toleration

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 September 2018

Teresa M. Bejan
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Not so long ago, a unified chorus of scholars, politicians, and activists declared that the time had come to move “beyond” toleration. Such an offensive orientation of de haut en bas indulgence towards difference may have been appropriate to warring Christian sects after the Reformation. But in this brave, new, and emphatically global world of unprecedented cultural, racial, and gender diversity, “mere” and musty toleration must give way to something more—to respect, recognition, even acceptance, or perhaps a positive conception of tolerance comprising the better features of all three.

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The Review of Politics , Volume 80 , Issue 4 , Fall 2018 , pp. 701 - 708
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Copyright © University of Notre Dame 2018 

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