Rainer Forst

The concept of toleration plays a central role in pluralistic societies. It designates a stance...

Wendy Brown and Rainer Forst debate the uses and misuses of tolerance, an exchange that highlights the fundamental differences in their critical practice despite a number of political similarities. Both scholars address the normative premises, limits, and political implications of various conceptions of tolerance. Brown offers a genealogical cri...

Contemporary philosophical pluralism recognizes the inevitability and legitimacy of multiple...