Justifying Toleration
by Susan Mendus
A collection of essays which trace the growth of philosophical justifications for the idea of toleration. I picked this book because it is an important marker of the renewed interest in toleration in the 1980s and 90s. A lot of writing prior to this tended to be about the historical tradition of thinking about toleration and its development as an idea, and there were a lot of very important books in their time on that theme. But this book really marks the appearance of toleration in modern political theory as an idea to be engaged with, and it contains many important and still influential papers about toleration both historically and as a philosophical idea.
