Regulating Aversion Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire

Name: Regulating Aversion Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire
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ISBN: 9780691136219

ISBN-10: 0691136211

ISBN-13: 9780691136219

Edition: 2006

Authors: Wendy Brown

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Tolerance is generally regarded as an unqualified achievement of the modern West. Emerging in early modern Europe to defuse violent religious conflict and reduce persecution, tolerance today is hailed as a key to decreasing conflict across a wide range of other dividing lines-- cultural, racial, ethnic, and sexual. But, as political theorist Wendy Brown argues inRegulating Aversion, tolerance also has dark and troubling undercurrents. Dislike, disapproval, and regulation lurk at the heart of tolerance. To tolerate is not to affirm but to conditionally allow what is unwanted or deviant. And, although presented as an alternative to violence, tolerance can play a part in justifying…

Book details

List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 1/27/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.13" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Acknowledgments



Tolerance as a Discourse of Depoliticization



Tolerance as a Discourse of Power



Tolerance as Supplement The ""Jewish Question"" and the ""Woman Question""



Tolerance as Governmentality Faltering Universalism, State Legitimacy, and State Violence



Tolerance as Museum Object The Simon Wiesenthal Center Museum of Tolerance



Subjects of Tolerance Why We Are Civilized and They Are the Barbarians



Tolerance a