...this book offers important reformulations of tolerance. ...by demonstrating the broad array of theories of tolerance, this book opens promising paths of inquiry for political philosophy.....

Pascal Massie, Vanderbilt University, Albert E. Gunn and Staff

Nederman shows that there is a wide 'diversity of intellectual frameworks that have generated viable defenses of toleration'.

Theolody Digest

The overall contribution of Difference and Dissent is to recognize communitarian and natural law foundations of toleration theory and to encourage us to ask percislely whom a theorist is tolerating, whethers/he intends temporary concordance or permanent toleration and to whom the theorist is not extending toleration.

Maryanne Cline Horowitz, Occidental College & UC of Los Angeles, American Political Science Review

All the essays inDifference and Dissentare informative and intellectually stimulating.

Hilmar M. Pabel, Simon Frasher University, H-Net: Humanities and Social Science Reviews Online

The editors of this collection of lively, interesting, and accessible essays are said to be congratulated on the coherence created by the common focus uniting the contributions. . . . This is clearly a quite different defence of toleration from that which makes free speech an inalienable individual right. . . . [offers] some alternatives to the conventional way of thinking about tolerance and [gives] us some practice in thinking about it in ways and contexts different fom the dominant modern narrative.

Ruth Abbey, Political Theory, University of Notre Dame, Journal Of Religious History

This volume is a happy antidote to those who think that the discussion of toleration in the modern world starts with John Locke. This collection brings together eleven essays that discuss kinds of toleration theories from the middle ages through the seventeenth century in different cultures, indicating that the idea of toleration has a much richer and interesting history than we are usually told about.

Richard H. Popkin, editor of the Columbia History of Western Philosophy