Regulating Aversion
Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire
by Wendy Brown
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. 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, a.
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Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire
2008, Princeton University Press
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1400827477 9781400827473
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