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Social Theory Re-Wired New Connections to Classical and Contemporary Perspectives

Social Theory Re-Wired New Connections to Classical and Contemporary Perspectives

This third edition of Social Theory Re-Wired is a significantly revised edition of this leading text and its unique web learning interactive programs that allow us to go farther into theory and to build student skills than ever before according to many teachers. Vital political and social updates are reflected both in the text and the online supplements. System updates to each section offer an expanded set of contemporary theory readings that focus on the impacts of information/digital technologies on each of the text’s five big themes: 1) the Puzzles of Social Order 2) the Social Consequences of Capitalism 3) the Darkside of Modernity 4) Subordinated/Alternative Knowledges and 5) Self-Identity and Society. New to this edition: The big ideas/questions thematic structure of the text as well as the connections between classical and contemporary theorists continues to be popular with instructors. This feature is enhanced in the new edition An expanded Podcast Companions series now pairs at least one podcast to every reading in the book Many new updates to the exercise platform allow students to theorize and build theory on their own New readings excerpts include such important recent work as: Shoshana Zuboff’s The Age of Surveillance Capitalism Ruha Benjamin’s Race After Technology David Graeber’s Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit Sherry Turkle’s “Always-On/Always-on-You. ” | Social Theory Re-Wired New Connections to Classical and Contemporary Perspectives

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Strategic Redundancy Implementation Re-Focus Re-Organise and Re-Build

Strategic Redundancy Implementation Re-Focus Re-Organise and Re-Build

Redundancy restructuring downsizing. There are few if any other management books on this important topic and yet the pace of redundancies has only accelerated in recent years. Coupled with this many companies that implement redundancies as a cost-cutting exercise often fail to achieve their goal. Whilst viewed as an uncomfortable topic by many guidance on how to implement a redundancy programme that is fair proportionate and ultimately leads to improved organisational performance has never been more needed. This book fills this important gap. It takes the reader through a redundancy implementation strategy – Re-Focus Re-Organise and Re-Build – that incorporates the key aspects of planning and analysis fairness and justice and prepares management for redundancy implementation through training. What will your communications include? What will be your strategy for implementation? What training does your management need? Various helpful template examples are included for employee consultation communication and training. The book will be invaluable for business managers HR professionals employee representatives and HR students. | Strategic Redundancy Implementation Re-Focus Re-Organise and Re-Build

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Egyptian Solar Religion in the New Kingdom RE Amun and the Crisis of Polytheism

Egyptian Solar Religion in the New Kingdom RE Amun and the Crisis of Polytheism

Revised and expanded this volume deals with the religious traditions of ancient Egypt which have come down to us in a state which is both extremely fragmentary and complex. New material - especially hymns collected in Theban tombs - now allows a much more precise allocation of religious texts and ideas in terms of time place and social context. Within the field of solar religion no less than five different traditions have to be distinguished: 1) the liturgical traditions of the royal solar cult which for their secrecy and exclusivity are labelled the mysteries of the sun cult; 2) the traditional mythology of the solar course expressed in hymns and pictorial representations; 3) the revolutionary process culminating in the Amarna period which discards the mythic images and gives a monotheistic construction of the solar course a process which starts before Akhenaten's revolution; 4) the theology of Amun-Re the God of Thebes before the Amarna Period a theology of primacy where one god acts as chief of a pantheon; and 5) the quite different theology of this same Amun-Re after Amarna a theology which answers the monotheistic experience by developing a kind of pantheism - the concept of the hidden god - who is both cosmic god and personal saviour. | Egyptian Solar Religion in the New Kingdom RE Amun and the Crisis of Polytheism

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Re-Thinking Eating Disorders Language Emotion and the Brain

Re-Thinking Eating Disorders Language Emotion and the Brain

In Re-Thinking Eating Disorders: Language Emotion and the Brain Barbara Pearlman integrates ideas from psychoanalysis developmental psychology and cutting-edge neuroscience to produce a model of neural emotional processing which may underpin the development of an eating disorder. Based on clinical observations over 30 years this book explores how state change from symbolic to concrete thinking may be a key event that precedes an eating disorder episode. The book introduces this theory and offers clinicians working with these challenging clients an entirely new model for treatment: internal language enhancement therapy (ILET). This easily teachable therapy is explored throughout the book with case studies and detailed descriptions of therapeutic techniques. Re-Thinking Eating Disorders will appeal to students and practitioners working with this clinical group who are seeking an up-to-date and integrative approach to therapy. | Re-Thinking Eating Disorders Language Emotion and the Brain

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Re-Visioning Person-Centred Therapy Theory and Practice of a Radical Paradigm

Re-Visioning Person-Centred Therapy Theory and Practice of a Radical Paradigm

By exploring various ways to assimilate recent progressive developments and to renew its vital links with its radical roots Re-Visioning Person-Centred Therapy: Theory and Practice of a Radical Paradigm takes a fresh look at this revolutionary therapeutic approach. Bringing together leading figures in PCT and new writers from around the world the essays in this book create fertile links with phenomenology meditation and spirituality critical theory contemporary thought and culture and philosophy of science. In doing so they create an outline that renews and re-visions person-centred therapy’s radical paradigm providing fertile material in both theory and practice. Shot through with clinical studies vignettes and in-depth discussions on aspects of theory Re-Visioning Person-Centred Therapy will be stimulating reading for therapists in training and practice as well as those interested in the development of PCT. | Re-Visioning Person-Centred Therapy Theory and Practice of a Radical Paradigm

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The New History

The New History

The notion of 'history' has always been one strenuously debated by both academics and the wider population. This deeply provocative re-thinking of our engagement with the past by one of the world's leading post-modern historians takes that debate one step further. Alun Munslow re-assesses history in the light of post-modernism and other intellectual challenges which have questioned the primacy of the modernist epistemology of empiricism. In an original and stimulating vision of history that will intrigue all those seriously interested in the subject Munslow argues that history is not only about the sources but a literary construction. Munslow concludes that history as a cultural narrative about the past can never tell us what the past really means. This far reaching conclusion is based on the radical idea that the content of history is defined as much by the nature of the language used to represent and interpret that content as it is by research into the sources. This suggests that history does not produce the most likely meaning of the past but rather can only generate alternative meanings. The lead volume in a major new series on historical thinking and practice this is an accessible yet absorbing study that breaks new ground in discussing the stage history is at now and perhaps most engagingly the direction it will take in the future. | The New History

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The British New Towns A Programme without a Policy

The British New Towns A Programme without a Policy

First published in 1979. Concern about the processes at work in Britain’s urban areas coupled with steep declines in the population projections led to a review of urban and regional policies in the mid-1970s with major implications for the new towns as an element of national policy. The various stages and the conclusions of this re-appraisal are discussed and the new towns’ role in the supposed ‘urban crisis’ is analysed. This title will be of interest to students of urban studies and development. | The British New Towns A Programme without a Policy

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Governing Through Pedagogy Re-educating Citizens

Governing Through Pedagogy Re-educating Citizens

This edited collection brings together researchers from education human geography sociology social policy and political theory in order to consider the idea of the ‘pedagogical state’ as a means of understanding the strategies employed to re-educate citizens. The book aims to critically interrogate the cultural practices of governing citizens in contemporary liberal societies. Governing through pedagogy can be identified as an emerging tactic by which both state agencies and other non-state actors manage administer discipline shape care for and enable liberal citizens. Hence discourses of ‘active citizenship’ ‘participatory democracy’ ‘community empowerment’ ‘personalised responsibility’ ‘behaviour change’ and ‘community cohesion’ are productively viewed through the conceptual lens of the pedagogical state. Chapters consider the spaces of schools universities the voluntary sector civil society organisations parenting initiatives the media government departments and state agencies as fruitful empirical sites through which pedagogy is worked and re-worked. This book was originally published as a special issue of Citizenship Studies. | Governing Through Pedagogy Re-educating Citizens

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Re-crafting Rationalization Enchanted Science and Mundane Mysteries

Re-crafting Rationalization Enchanted Science and Mundane Mysteries

Re-crafting Rationalization contributes to debates relating to the public understanding of science regarding the conceptualization of the relationship between 'science' and 'the public'. It challenges the prevailing science-centred or 'top-down' framework that currently informs notions of 'public engagement' and 'knowledge-transfer' offering an alternative that remains firmly grounded in the discourse of classical social theory. By proposing an alternative version of rationalization to the standard interpretation of Weber's disenchantment thesis this book establishes the public understanding of science as a matter of fundamental sociological concern. As such it redefines this field to emphasize public meanings of science engaging with a range of topics of major interest to the public and popular meaning of science including science and religion science fiction and fantasy 'fringe' science and media representations of science. Combining rhetorical analysis with ethnomethodology and membership categorization analysis the book outlines the basis of a new approach to the sociology of knowledge in the light of which Weber's rationalization thesis is radically re-crafted in relation to studies of scientists' discourse the rhetoric of science popularization and public usages of science. This re-crafted rationalization is applied in a series of detailed empirical studies of enchanted science (creationism and intelligent design Scientology and reflexive spirituality superhero comics) and mundane mysteries (Fortean discourse conspiracy theory and media representations of 'the scientist' in the case of Jack the Ripper). Re-crafting Rationalization therefore redresses a significant shortcoming in contemporary social theory which currently overlooks or misrepresents important public meanings of science whilst excluding popular culture from attention. With profound implications for the ways in which we make sense of developments involving science this book will be of interest not only to sociologists and social theorists but also to those interested in popular culture and subcultures and the history philosophy and sociology of science. | Re-crafting Rationalization Enchanted Science and Mundane Mysteries

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Seemings New Arguments New Angles

Seemings New Arguments New Angles

This volume presents new research on the epistemology of seemings. It features original essays by leading epistemologists on the nature and epistemic import of seemings and intuitions. Seemings and intuitions are often appealed to in philosophical theorizing. In fact epistemological theories such as phenomenal conservatism and dogmatism give pride of place to seemings. Such views insist that seemings are of central importance to theories of epistemic justification. However there are many questions about seemings that have yet to be answered satisfactorily. What kinds of seemings are there? How do seemings justify? Are seemings connected to truth? Do they play a significant role in inquiry? The chapters in this volume offer a range of useful arguments and fresh ideas about seemings the nature of justification and evidential support intuitions inquiry and the nature of inference. Seemings: New Arguments New Angles will be of interest to researchers and advanced students working in epistemology and philosophy of mind. | Seemings New Arguments New Angles

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Death and (Re) Birth of J.S. Bach Reconsidering Musical Authorship and the Work-Concept

Death and (Re) Birth of J.S. Bach Reconsidering Musical Authorship and the Work-Concept

While the study and redefinition of the notion of authorship and its relationship to the idea of the literary work have played a central role in recent research on literature semiotics and related disciplines its impact on contemporary musicology is still limited. Why? What implications would a reconsideration of the author- and work-concepts have on our understanding of the creative musical processes? Why would such a re-examination of these regulative concepts be necessary? Could it emerge from a post-structuralist revision of the notion of musical textuality? In this book Trillo takes the …Bach… project a collection of new music based on Johann Sebastian Bach’s Partita No. 1 for solo violin BWV 1002 as a point of departure to sketch some critical answers to these fundamental questions raise new ones and explore their musicological implications. | Death and (Re) Birth of J. S. Bach Reconsidering Musical Authorship and the Work-Concept

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Soft Spaces in Europe Re-negotiating governance boundaries and borders

Soft Spaces in Europe Re-negotiating governance boundaries and borders

The past thirty years have seen a proliferation of new forms of territorial governance that have come to co-exist with and complement formal territorial spaces of government. These governance experiments have resulted in the creation of soft spaces new geographies with blurred boundaries that eschew existing political-territorial boundaries of elected tiers of government. The emergence of new non-statutory or informal spaces can be found at multiple levels across Europe in a variety of circumstances and with diverse aims and rationales. This book moves beyond theory to examine the practice of soft spaces. It employs an empirical approach to better understand the various practices and rationalities of soft spaces and how they manifest themselves in different planning contexts. By looking at the effects of new forms of spatial governance and the role of spatial planning in North-western Europe this book analyses discursive changes in planning policies in selected metropolitan areas and cross-border regions. The result is an exploration of how these processes influence the emergence of soft spaces governance arrangements and the role of statutory planning in different contexts. This book provides a deeper understanding of space and place territorial governance and network governance. | Soft Spaces in Europe Re-negotiating governance boundaries and borders

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Erotic Preference Gender Identity and Aggression in Men New Research Studies

Erotic Preference Gender Identity and Aggression in Men New Research Studies

A fresh and challenging re-evaluation of the interrelationship between sexual and gender behavior and aggression. Drawing on a series of previously unpublished controlled research studies on rapists pedophiles incest offenders voyeurs transsexuals and homosexuals (among others) the book offers startling new findings- e. g. crossdressing and feminine gender identity in rapists believed to be ultra-masculine aggressiveness in pedophiles believed to be shy and passive. This book brings a new perspective to understanding sexual anomalies and to the conceptual foundations on which clinical research and treatment of these behaviors rests. | Erotic Preference Gender Identity and Aggression in Men New Research Studies

GBP 175.00
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Late Ruskin: New Contexts New Contexts

Late Ruskin: New Contexts New Contexts

This title was first published in 2001. Ruskin said that 1860 marked the beginning of his 'proper work'. This study presents new historicized readings of important texts and themes from that late period 1860-1889 discussing in detail works including Unto this Last (1860) the Lectures on Art (1870) Fors Clavigera (1871-1884) and The Bible of Amiens (1880-85) and considering key themes such as Ruskin's politicized regard for Pre-Raphaelitism in the 1870s and the complex topic of Ruskin and manliness. Claiming new and distinctive importance for this period of Ruskin's work both in terms of Ruskin's development as a writer and his place in Victorian culture as it moved toward modernity this book is the first solely devoted to the prolific later years and draws on much unpublished material. | Late Ruskin: New Contexts New Contexts

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Rural Tourism New Concepts New Research New Practice

Rural Tourism New Concepts New Research New Practice

This book describes analyses celebrates and interrogates the rise of rural tourism in the developed world over the last thirty years while explaining its need to enter a new second generation of development if it is to remain sustainable in all senses of that word. Contributors include 29 leading researchers practitioners and commentators from ten countries around the world. Subjects covered include the ongoing evolution of rural tourism as a genre; its numerous niche markets and market trends; community involvement and its impacts on rural landscape conservation and society. Special attention is paid to product development in rural tourism including food and beverage tourism avitourism and landscape appreciation. Management Issues are also dealt with as is the impact of internet booking systems on both commercial performance and regional and national rural tourism governance. There is a review of trends in academic research in rural tourism with an analysis of 1848 refereed and published research papers since 2000. This book is a worthy successor to Bramwell & Lane’s pioneering 1994 publication Rural Tourism and Sustainable Rural Development. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Sustainable Tourism. | Rural Tourism New Concepts New Research New Practice

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Understanding Desistance from Crime and Social and Community (Re)integration

Understanding Desistance from Crime and Social and Community (Re)integration

This book gives voice to justice-involved Canadian youth and young adults by sharing their views on their journey towards desistance from crime and social and community (re)integration. Building on interviews with 140 justice-involved youth and young adults (aged 16 to 35) the book explores the challenges they faced while they were under the control of the justice system the ways in which they navigated the obstacles they came up against and the support they needed to overcome them. What and who they consider to be facilitators in their journeys is presented. The book also examines experiences of assisted desistance in different settings such as incarceration addiction services and community supervision. What distinguishes this book is its focus on how justice-involved youth and young adults perceive their own experiences of desistance from crime and social and community (re)integration. An accessible and compelling read Understanding Desistance from Crime and Social and Community (Re)Integration will be of interest to those engaged with desistance studies rehabilitation re-entry juvenile and adult justice and recovery from addiction.

GBP 130.00
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New Regionalism in Australia

New Regionalism in Australia

New Regionalism promoted as a new paradigm of development by the OECD suggests that globalization is bringing together new technologies management employees and communities to form new patterns of local governance. However despite the growing influence of New Regionalism in regional development policy in the West and increasingly in Australia there has been little debate about the relevance and application of these ideas in Australia. Bringing together contributions from academics practitioners and policy makers this book redresses this imbalance by examining the theoretical and empirical foundations of this powerful and growing school of thought locating the debate firmly in the Australian context. With an opening chapter by Kevin Morgan (Cardiff University) who has been at the heart of the New Regionalism debate the book provides important insights into the theory and practice of New Regionalism in this vibrant region. | New Regionalism in Australia

GBP 38.99
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Nuclear France New Questions New Sources New Findings

Nuclear France New Questions New Sources New Findings

This book offers the first non-official history of French nuclear policies which goes beyond the divide between nuclear weapons and nuclear energy policies. It addresses the sizing of France’s nuclear forces technological assistance to countries with nuclear weapons programs uranium prospection nuclear testing its health effects and protests against it as well as plans to prevent and manage accidents in nuclear power plants. It is based on new questions and new sources from France and abroad. The chapters in this volume show how independent and interdisciplinary scholarship free from conflicts of interests can uniquely advance our understanding of nuclear history and politics. This is the case because it does not treat the categories and judgments of official discourse as neutral starting points of the analysis. This volume is based on untapped primary sources from France the UK the US India South Africa and Iran on a new assessment of the health consequences of French nuclear testing in Polynesia thanks to a modern atmospheric particle transport code coupled with historical weather data open-source information about radioactive debris (“mushroom”) clouds as well as data on the composition and particle sizes of the fallout; and on new survey data about French knowledge of and attitudes towards nuclear weapons and nuclear energy. They show notably that the first generation of French nuclear forces lacked technical credibility despite reliance on outside help. Several French officials knew this as did France's allies and adversaries. Moreover French strategic collaborations associated to nuclear programs extended to India and South Africa; nuclear safety regulations changed fundamentally after the Cold War and approximately 110 000 people i. e. 90% of the French Polynesian population in the 1970s could have received doses that would qualify them for compensation according to French law. The volume will be of interest to scholars and students of history politics international relations military history war studies conflict and global governance. Most of the chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue in Cold War History. A few chapters were first published in the Nonproliferation Review Diplomacy & Statecraft and Science & Global Security. | Nuclear France New Questions New Sources New Findings

GBP 130.00
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(Re)Constructing Communities in Europe 1918-1968 Senses of Belonging Below Beyond and Within the Nation-State

(Re)Constructing Communities in Europe 1918-1968 Senses of Belonging Below Beyond and Within the Nation-State

This book offers a new perspective on the social history of twentieth-century Europe by investigating the ideals and ideas the life worlds and ideologies that emerge behind the use of the concept of community. It explores a wide variety of actors ranging from the tenants of London council estates to transnational cultural elites. | (Re)Constructing Communities in Europe 1918-1968 Senses of Belonging Below Beyond and Within the Nation-State

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New Economic Spaces: New Economic Geographies

New Economic Spaces: New Economic Geographies

As a core volume in the Dynamics of Economic Space series contributors from North America Australasia Europe and the Middle East each address the constitutive processes of new economic and institutional spaces and the theoretical methodological and policy-engaging practices of emerging economic geographies. Together they provide a timely and important overview of the current debates about the geographies of economic change. As national and regional economies change rapidly so the frameworks concepts and methods used to describe and analyse those processes also need to evolve. This volume puts forward a comprehensive analysis of a range of different and innovative means currently available through which to view regional economic activities and interactions. | New Economic Spaces: New Economic Geographies

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Toward New Horizons for Women in Distance Education International Perspectives

Toward New Horizons for Women in Distance Education International Perspectives

Originally published in 1988. This book provides an overview of women’s experience access and needs in distance education. It includes contributions on distance learning programmes in Holland Canada the South Pacific West Germany Australia New Zealand Israel Kenta Great Britain India Papua New Guinea Sweden and Turkey. Within this diversity are common international themes on the nature of the educational process for women in distance learning whether the subject is building construction or art teaching. The incorporation of a historical perspective and an evaluation of the prospects for the future contextualises the descriptions of the ways in which women are currently re-defining themselves through distance education around the world. | Toward New Horizons for Women in Distance Education International Perspectives

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Re-Thinking Kinship and Feudalism in Early Medieval Europe

Re-Thinking Kinship and Feudalism in Early Medieval Europe

This is the second collection of studies by Stephen D. White to be published by Variorum (the first being Feuding and Peace-Making in Eleventh-Century France). The essays in this volume look principally at France and England from Merovingian and Anglo-Saxon times up to the 12th century. They analyze Latin and Old French discourses that medieval nobles used to construct their relationships with kin lords men and friends and investigate the political dimensions of such relationships with particular reference to patronage/clientage the use of land as an item of exchange and feuding. In so doing the essays call into question the conventional practice of studying kinship and feudalism as independent systems of legal institutions and propose new strategies for studying them. | Re-Thinking Kinship and Feudalism in Early Medieval Europe

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Towards a Transtheoretical Definition of Countertransference Re-visioning the Clinician's Intersubjective Experience

Towards a Transtheoretical Definition of Countertransference Re-visioning the Clinician's Intersubjective Experience

This book explores the analyst’s countertransference experience in clinical settings from a number of theoretical perspectives in order to develop a transtheoretical definition of countertransference. Stemming from an examination of the definition of countertransference itself the author utilizes a philosophical hermeneutic approach to ask how pathological countertransference develops how analysts separate themselves from the patient’s experience and what analysts should do to prevent their countertransference response from interfering with treatment. Through the unique hermeneutic methodology philosophical themes within selected writings are explored as a way of gaining a deeper meaning and understanding of countertransference. By re-interpreting these selected writings in a new light the book develops a transtheoretical definition and approach to countertransference. As such the author offers a timely reassessment of the meaning and understanding of countertransference as it has evolved over the past century going from being considered an obstacle to treatment brought on by the analyst’s unconscious conflicts to being understood as a way of communicating and understanding the patient’s unconscious material. It also provides a unique pathway through various depth psychological therapeutic and theoretical approaches to countertransference foregrounding the significance and therapeutic value of the concept and seeking a new transtheoretical definition. This volume will appeal to scholars and researchers of psychology and mental health. | Towards a Transtheoretical Definition of Countertransference Re-visioning the Clinician's Intersubjective Experience

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Toleration Re-Examined

Toleration Re-Examined

The problem of how we are to live together in morally and culturally diverse democratic societies is central to modern life. Over the last thirty years an extensive philosophical literature has developed around the idea of toleration as a way of engaging with that problem. However recent years have witnessed a growing backlash against the idea of toleration which is often considered too ‘thin’ or too unambitious an aspiration for liberal democracy. This timely collection of essays from an international field of experts in the history and philosophy of toleration takes stock of this debate and offers a distinctive reassessment of the place of toleration in contemporary political life. Against the general climate of scepticism the message that emerges from these essays is that toleration remains an extremely powerful idea and one that must remain central to the political enterprise of forging social unity amid diversity in the twenty-first century. This book was originally published as a special issue of Critical Review of Social and Political Philosophy. | Toleration Re-Examined

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