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1. Toleration Re-Examined

   Edited by Derek Edyvane, Matt Matravers

   The problem of how we are to live together in morally and culturally diverse democratic societies is central to modern life. Over the last thirty years, an extensive philosophical literature has developed around the idea of toleration as a way of engaging with that problem. However, recent years...

   To Be Published July 2nd 2012 by Routledge
2. Democracy, Equality, and Justice

   Edited by Matt Matravers, Lukas Meyer

   In addressing democracy, equality, and justice together, the book stimulates discussions that go beyond the sometimes increasingly technical and increasingly discrete literatures that now dominate the study of each concept. The chapters fall into four categories: on justice and democracy;...

   Published December 8th 2010 by Routledge
3. Managing Modernity

   Politics and the Culture of Control

   Edited by Matt Matravers

   In the last thirty years, the USA and the UK have witnessed a profound change in the way in which we think about and respond to crime and social control. Crime has become part of everyday life as, for many citizens, has imprisonment.Managing Modernity brings together criminologists, social...

   Published October 12th 2009 by Routledge
4. Scanlon and Contractualism

   By Matt Matravers

   This collection brings together essays by distinguished political philosophers which reflect on the detailed arguments of What We Owe to Each Other, and comment critically both on Scanlon's contractualism and his revised understandings of motivation and morality. The essays illustrate the uses of...

   Published February 4th 2004 by Routledge