Frank Furedi

Sociologist, commentator and author of Culture of Fear, Where Have All The Intellectuals Gone?, Paranoid Parenting, Therapy Culture, and On Tolerance: In Defence of Moral Independence.
 
       
 

Coverage of On Tolerance: A Defence of Moral Independence

Rob White: Planet Intolerance
The Global Warming Policy Foundation, 8 November 2011
Book Review: 'On Tolerance', by Frank Furedi.

Open Lecture - Professor Frank Furedi on tolerance
University of Kent, 2 November 2011
Author, broadcaster and sociology professor, Frank Furedi will give an Open Lecture at the University of Kent on Wednesday 2 November at 6pm.

Über Toleranz: „Es wird Zeit, den Liberalismus zurückzuerobern“
Novo Argumente, 26 October 2011
Brendan O’Neill im Gespräch mit Frank Furedi.

Minding our language breeds cynicism and cultural dishonesty
The Australian, 22 October 2011
One of the most disturbing developments in the cultural life of the West is the casual acceptance of the policing of language.

FiveBooks Interviews: Claire Fox on freedom of speech
The Browser, 18 October 2011
Modern society has interpreted John Stuart Mill's concept of tolerance to mean that we should avoid giving offence. The director of the Institute of Ideas tells us about books that show how far we've departed from what was meant

Can we tolerate intolerance?
Independent, 13 October 2011
Time and again interviewers ask me ‘can we tolerate intolerance’? Such questions continually signal the idea that tolerance is a freedom that can only be endowed to those who deserve it.

Review by Mary Warnock
Times Higher Education, 29 September 2011
Freedom withers if a culture of 'therapeutic censorship' flourishes.

‘It is time that we reclaimed liberalism’
spiked, 23 September 2011
Frank Furedi talks to Brendan O’Neill about his new book On Tolerance and why he wants to halt and reverse the warping of the liberal outlook.

Review by Julian Baggini
Financial Times, 16 September 2011
Veteran intellectual pugilist Frank Furedi makes an attack on tolerance without engagement.

Review by Edward King
Sunday Times, 11 September 2011
The sociologist argues that in our modern multicultural world we have lost sight of what it means to be truly tolerant.

The problem with tolerance. Review by Madeleine Bunting
Guardian, 5 September 2011
Dragged into the politicisation of identity, tolerance has become a form of 'polite etiquette', argues Frank Furedi in a new book.

Tolerance hører nøje sammen med fordømmelse
Weekendavisen, 23 August 2011
Interview. »Man kan ikke være demokrat mandag og tirsdag og så kassere det onsdag og torsdag.« Mød den britiske sociolog Frank Furedi til en samtale om, hvorfor vi totalt har misforstået, hvad tolerance handler om. Klaus Wivel.