Glen Newey is Professor of Political Theory at the Université Libre de Bruxelles. He has taught and written about toleration for over 25 years and is the author of Hobbes and Leviathan (2007), After Politics (2001) and Virtue, Reason and Toleration: The Place of Toleration in Ethical and Political Philosophy (1999). He has also written many articles on the theory and practice of toleration and is a frequent reviewer and commentator for publications including the London Review of Books, The Independent, the New Statesman and the Times Literary Supplement.
1. Introduction: toleration in trouble
2. Tolerating politics
3. Democratic toleration?
4. Toleration as sedition
5. The trouble with respect
6. How not to tolerate religion
7. Liberty, toleration, security
8. Toleration and power
9. Tolerating ourselves, tolerating terror
10. Toleration, free speech and the right to lie
Epilogue.