Monday, June 20, 2011

Rainer Forst speaks in Berlin

On June 22, Professor Rainer Forst will give a lecture at the Humboldt University, Berlin on

"Dulden heißt Beleidigen. Der umstrittene Begriff der Toleranz" [pdf]

The lecture is part of a series entitled "Rethinking Law in a Global Context".

Rainer Forst is Professor of Political Theory and Philosophy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main. His books include "Kontexte der Gerechtigkeit" (1994), "Toleranz im Konflikt" (2003), "Das Recht auf Rechtfertigung" (2007), and "Kritik der Rechtfertigungsverhältnisse" (2011).

See also

- a recent interview with Rainer Forst on tolerance and Islam
[Der Tagesspiegel, June 6, 2011.]

- a lecture by Rainer Forst on "The Power of Tolerance" [video, Berlin 2008]

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