"The triumph of toleration as the central liberal value, and the attendant inability of liberals to see the dark side of their favorite virtue, is the subject of Wendy Brown's insightful and illuminating new book... I find the analysis trenchant and the critique persuasive."
Stanley Fish, Chronicle of Higher Education "This is a remarkable book ... made attractive by its passion, ... Read morethe lucidity of its negative critique, and its intelligence."
John Hall, Social Forces "Wendy Brown has produced a richly textured and timely analysis of some of the darker elements lurking beneath the tolerance discourse of western liberalism."
Vincent Geoghegan, American Review of Politics "[This is a] bold, erudite, and timely study."
Ely Aharonson, Criminal Law and Philosophy "Regulating Aversion is a forceful and, in many places, convincing attempt to account for the contemporary relevance and meanings of tolerance within liberalism in the West, and in the United States in particular."
Emily Grabham, Feminist Legal Studies "The strength of Brown's book is her trenchant deconstructions of the universalizing pretenses of tolerance specifically and liberal discourse more generally. Brown's intervention successfully jars tolerance loose from the hallowed transhistorical ground on which it usually rests."
C. Michael Hurst, Cultural Critique Show Less