Status Updates From Critica della tolleranza

Tolerance is first and foremost for the sake of the heretics--the historical road towardhumanitas appears as heresy: target of persecution by the powers that be. Heresy by itself, however, is no token of truth.

For socialism, both in its diagnosis of the ills of industrial capitalism and in its proposed remedies, focuses on the structure of the economy and society as a whole and advances programs in the name of the general good. Pluralism [...] does not acknowledge the possibility of wholesale reorganization of the society. By insisting on the group nature of society, it denies the existence of society-wide interests.

The first essay is by a philosopher steeped in the analytic tradition [...] the last essay is also by a philosopher [...] who considers the contemporary analytic tradition dangerous [...] author of the middle essay is a sociologist trained in a tradition that regarded all philosophy as absurd and dangerous. That we have managed to produce a book together is in itself some small tribute to the spirit of toleration.