This volume gathers the articles presented at the Reset DOC Venice Seminars 2018, which took place at the Giorgio Cini Foundation from June 7 to June 9, 2018.

The 2018 Venice Seminars addressed the topic of “Fountainheads of Toleration – Forms of Pluralism in Empires, Republics, Democracies”.

Table of Contents

Introduction by Volker Kaul, Sources of toleration: Individuals, cultures, institutions

Toleration, Individuals and Liberalism

Stephen Macedo, Liberalism beyond toleration: Religious exemptions, civility and the
ideological other

Alessandro Ferrara, Sideways at the entrance of the cave: A pluralist footnote to Plato

Homi K. Bhabha, The barbed wire labyrinth: Thoughts on the culture of migration

Diego von Vacano, American caudillo: Princely performative populism and democracy in the Americas

Cultures of Toleration: Islam, India, China

Ida Zilio-Grandi, The virtue of tolerance: Notes on the root s-m-h. in the Islamic tradition

Antonio Rigopoulos, Tolerance in Swami Vivekananda’s Neo-Hinduism

Pei Wang, Towards a morally defensible concept of toleration: Insights from ancient Chinese thinking

Francesca Tarocco, Politics of Toleration Religious tolerance: A view from China

Federico Squarcini, Selling tolerance by the pound: On ideal types’ fragility, Ashoka’s edicts and the political theology
of toleration in and beyond South Asia

Cengiz Aktar, Turkish political Islam’s failure

Global Regimes of Toleration

Jacqueline Bhabha, Toleration deficits: The perilous state of refugee protection today

Ahmet Insel, Tolerated but not equal

Simon Goldhill, The infrastructure of tolerance

Ogan Yumlu, Dimensions of majority rule
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