Thomas Brudholm is Associate Professor in the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen. He is the author of Resentment's Virtue and co-editor of The Religious in Responses to Mass Atrocity and Emotions and Mass Atrocity.
Birgitte Schepelern Johansen is Associate Professor in the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies and Center for Advanced Migration Studies at the University of Copenhagen.

• Introduction, Thomas Brudholm and Birgitte Schepelern Johansen


• Part I: Historicizing Hatred


• 1. From Race to Hate: A Historical Perspective, Erik Bleich


• 2. Hate and the State in Ancient Greece, David Konstan


• Part II: Conceptualizing Hatred


• 3. Dwelling on Hatred, Thomas Brudholm


• 4. Problematizing Hatred in Democratic States, Niza Yanay


• 5. Towards a Legal Concept of Hatred: Democracy, Ontology, and the Limits of Deconstruction, Eric Heinze


• Part III: Responses to Hatred


• 6. Criminalizing Hate?, Antony R. Duff and Sandra E. Marshall


• 7. Readdressing Hate Crime: Synthesizing Law, Punishment, and Restorative Justice, Mark A. Walters


• 8. Tolerance: An Appropriate Answer to Hate?, Birgitte Schepelern Johansen


• 9. From Hate to Political Solidarity: The Art of Responsibility, Mihaela Mihai


• Part IV: Democratic Hatreds?


• 10. Democratic Hatreds: The Making of "the hating enemy" in Liberal Democracy, Mikkel Thorup


• 11. When the State Hates, Kathryn Abrams


• Epilogue


• Concluding Thoughts: The Legality and Politics of Hatred, Robert Post

Hate, Politics, Law: Critical Perspectives on Combating of Hate offers a critical exploration and assessment of the basic assumptions, ideals, and agendas behind the modern fight against hate. The essays in this volumes explore these issues and provide a range of explanatory and normative perspectives on the awkward relationship between hate and liberal democracy.