Toleranz im Konflikt

by Rainer Forst

This is a new book by Rainer Forst, who is a professor at the University of Frankfurt. He is part of a tradition of thinking there, which runs from Habermas, and Karl-Otto Apel, to Forst, who’s the third figure in this triumvirate. He tells me, jokingly, that it’s about toleration ‘from Jesus to Forst’, which explains why it’s 900 pages long; but, more seriously, it’s a book about the role of toleration in defusing, ameliorating and regulating conflict, and about conflicts within the idea of toleration itself.
(Currently being translated to English)