The Political Theory of Modus Vivendi (PDF)

John Horton is Emeritus Professor of Political Philosophy at Keele University, UK. Before moving to Keele he taught at the University of York, UK, where he was for many years Director of the Morrell Centre for Studies in Toleration. He is the author of Political Obligation (rev edn 2010) and has edited or co-edited several volumes on toleration and volumes on literature and political theory and the work of Alasdair MacIntyre and of John Gray. He has published numerous articles in contemporary political philosophy, especially on toleration, political obligation and modus vivendi.
Manon Westphal is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Advanced Study in Bioethics at the University of Muenster. Her research focuses on political theory and democratic theory. She is particularly interested in pluralism, agonism and the political regulation of normative disagreement. In her doctoral thesis, she examined how agonistic conceptions of politics influence considerations about institutional design. Recent publications include "What bonds citizens in a pluralistic democracy? Probing Mouffe's notion of a conflictual consensus", in: Knoll, Manuel/Snyder, Stephen/¿imsek, Nurdane (eds.): Justice Beyond Consensus: Distributive Solutions to the Problems of Pluralism and Conflict. Berlin/Boston: DeGruyter (forthcoming); "Jenseits des Konsens-Ideals: Deliberation in der agonalen Demokratie", in: Schmalz-Bruns, Rainer/Landwehr, Claudia (eds.): Deliberative Demokratie in der Diskussion. Herausforderungen, Bewährungsproben, Kritik. Baden-Baden: Nomos, 2014, 305-337.
Ulrich Willems is Professor of Political Theory at the Department Political Science at the University of Muenster. He is also Principal Investigator at the Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics in pre-modern and modern times", Director of the "Centre for Religion and Modernity" and a member of the "Centre for Advanced Studies in Bioethics", all located at the University of Muenster. Prior to Muenster he taught at