Mitja Sardoc

The aim of this paper is to examine the various controversies over the genuineproblems of toleration in a plurally diverse polity as both historically andconceptually, toleration is one of the foundational characteristics that defines thevery essence of a plurally diverse polity and the basic virtue associated with a liberalconception of citizenship. In section 1, I present the main philosophical andconceptual issues related to the toleration-based approach to diversity in liberalpolitical theory. In section 2 I identify the conditions and the circumstances oftoleration. I articulate in Section 3 the most pressing objections against toleration. Ipresent in section 4 two competing approaches to the toleration-based approach todiversity is faced with. In the concluding section, I outline a modified conception oftoleration that mediates between different requirements associated with the twoprincipled commitments of the liberal version of the rights-based conception ofcitizenship.

ABSTRACT In this interview, Professor Robert K. Fullinwider, Senior Research Scholar at the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, University of Maryland, provides an excellent and much needed overview of the debate on multiculturalism and `identity politics' and its relevance to educational theory. The interview also examines questions related to citizenship education, inclusion, and diversity in American public education. It also addresses several other important questions in contemporary political theory and philosophy of education, e.g. the civic purposes of public schooling, the sharp decline of civic culture over the past decades, issues of cultural diversity and value pluralism in contemporary liberal democracies.

The Legacy of Liberalism, Community and Culture This article introduces the thematic section of Two Homelands celebrating the 25 th anniversary of the publication of Will Kymlicka's Liberalism, Community and Culture, one of the seminal books on multicul-turalism and contemporary political theory in general. It contextualizes this symposium [thematic sec-tion] by identifying some of the assumptions that the then-existing liberal conceptions of justice were based upon when addressing issues related to cultural diversity. At the same time, it summarizes the argument for cultural rights advanced by Kymlicka in Liberalism, Community and Culture. It then presents the papers that are part of this symposium [thematic section] and their contribution to the understanding the liberal conception of multiculturalism has had on all subsequent theorizing over cultural diversity and civic equality. IZVLEČEK Dediščina knjige Liberalism, Community, and Culture Prispevek predstavlja tematski sklop revije Dve domovini, ki obeležuje 25-letnico izida knjige Willa Kymlic-ke Liberalism, Community and Culture, ene od utemeljitvenih del multikulturalizma in sodobne politične teorije nasploh. Prispevek simpozij [tematski sklop] kontekstualizira skozi identifikacijo nekaterih pred-postavk, na katerih so temeljila liberalna pojmovanja pravičnosti pri reševanju vprašanj, povezanih s kul-turno raznolikostjo. Hkrati povzema argument Willa Kymlicke za kulturne pravice, predstavljen v knjigi Liberalism, Community and Culture. Sledi predstavitev člankov, ki so del simpozija [tematskega sklopa] ter njegovega prispevka k razumevanju vloge liberalnega pojmovanja multikulturalizma pri vseh poznejših teoretiziranjih kulturne raznolikosti in državljanske enakosti. KLJUČNE BESEDE: liberalizem, multikulturalizem, državljanska enakost, kulturne pravice, Will Kymlicka

ABSTRACT In this interview, Professor Robert K. Fullinwider, Senior Research Scholar at the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, University of Maryland, provides an excellent and much needed overview of the debate on multiculturalism and `identity politics' and its relevance to educational theory. The interview also examines questions related to citizenship education, inclusion, and diversity in American public education. It also addresses several other important questions in contemporary political theory and philosophy of education, e.g. the civic purposes of public schooling, the sharp decline of civic culture over the past decades, issues of cultural diversity and value pluralism in contemporary liberal democracies.

Michael Walzer is currently at the School of Social Science, Institute for Advanced Study, in Princeton, New Jersey. Professor Walzer has written Just and Unjust Wars; The Revolution of the Saints and has edited Toward A Global Civil Society. In this interview, he discusses some of the current concerns about education, political theory and the current state of the art of toleration, and acceptance and accommodation of different racial, ethnic, social and minority groups. He has published extensively and his work has been translated in several other languages. In this interview, he responds to questions about his work, his writings and his current concerns.

ABSTRACT In this interview, Professor Robert K. Fullinwider, Senior Research Scholar at the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, University of Maryland, provides an excellent and much needed overview of the debate on multiculturalism and `identity politics' and its relevance to educational theory. The interview also examines questions related to citizenship education, inclusion, and diversity in American public education. It also addresses several other important questions in contemporary political theory and philosophy of education, e.g. the civic purposes of public schooling, the sharp decline of civic culture over the past decades, issues of cultural diversity and value pluralism in contemporary liberal democracies.