TY - JOUR
AU1 - Gray, Christopher F.
AB - Michael Walzer, On Toleration. Yale University Press, New Haven, 1997,126 pp., index; paperback, ISBN 0-300-07600-2. As an American Jew, Michael Walzer grew up thinking of himself as being tolerated. It was not until adulthood that he realized he was also tolerating—he had to tolerate those whose ideas of Judaism differed from his own, as well as those who had entirely different religions. This realization formed the basis for his book, On Toleration, which discusses the concept of toleration and its application within five different "regimes of toleration". The toleration discussed is not toleration of political difference, which has little to do with the underlying, fundamental toleration of difference, but rather with the "religious, cultural, and way-of-life differences" (p. 9) that are made possible only through toleration; toleration therefore becomes a necessary component of a society that supports or embraces difference. All of the regimes of toleration analyzed incorporate toleration in different ways and to varying levels. For instance, a society may resign to accept difference, or it may be open, curious, or even respectful of difference. The regimes are not ranked according to their levels of toleration, but are discussed in terms of their individual strengths and weaknesses. Ultimately, 
TI - Book Reviews
JF - Chinese Journal of International Law
DO - 10.1093/oxfordjournals.cjilaw.a000515
DA - 2004-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/book-reviews-6QMRcSLVql
SP - 345
EP - 348
VL - 3
IS - 1
DP - DeepDyve
ER -