Regulating Aversion : : Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire /

Regulating Aversion : : Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire / / 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, eth...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Brown, Wendy,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]
©2006
Year of Publication:2009
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • 1. Tolerance as a Discourse of Depoliticization
  • 2. Tolerance as a Discourse of Power
  • 3. Tolerance as Supplement The "Jewish Question" and the "Woman Question"
  • 4.Tolerance as Governmentality Faltering Universalism, State Legitimacy, and State Violence
  • 5. Tolerance as Museum Object The Simon Wiesenthal Center Museum of Tolerance
  • 6. Subjects of Tolerance Why We Are Civilized and They Are the Barbarians
  • 7. Tolerance as/in Civilizational Discourse
  • NOTES
  • INDEX

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