Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire
by Wendy Brown
Rating
LanguageEN
Total Pages268 pages
ISBN
9780691126548
Published
2006
Description
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 decreas...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.