Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire

by 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 in Regulating Aversion, tolerance also has dark and troubling undercurrents.

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Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0691136211

ISBN13:9780691136219

Release Date:January 2008

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:288 Pages

Weight:0.94 lbs.

Dimensions:0.7" x 6.6" x 9.2"

Related Subjects

Discrimination & Racism Political History Political Science Politics & Government Politics & Social Sciences Race Relations Social Science Social Sciences Social Theory Sociology

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