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The Power of Tolerance: A Debate

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Description for The Power of Tolerance: A Debate Paperback. Editor(s): Di Blasi, Luca; Holzhey, Christoph F. E. Series: New Directions in Critical Theory. Num Pages: 112 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: HPS; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 135 x 205 x 9. Weight in Grams: 156.
We invoke the ideal of tolerance in response to conflict, but what does it mean to answer conflict with a call for tolerance? Is tolerance a way of resolving conflicts or a means of sustaining them? Does it transform conflicts into productive tensions, or does it perpetuate underlying power relations? To what extent does tolerance hide its involvement with power and act as a form of depoliticization? Wendy Brown and Rainer Forst debate the uses and misuses of tolerance, an exchange that highlights the fundamental differences in their critical practice despite a number of political similarities. Both scholars address ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
New Directions in Critical Theory
Condition
New
Weight
155g
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231170192
SKU
V9780231170192
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About Wendy Brown
Rainer Forst is Professor of Political Theory and Philosophy and Co-Director of the Normative Orders Research Cluster at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main. His recent books include The Right to Justification, Toleration in Conflict and Justification and Critique. Wendy Brown is Class of 1936 First Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, ... Read more

Reviews for The Power of Tolerance: A Debate
Brown and Forst are the authors of two of the most important books on tolerance to be published in the last decade. This book not only offers an overview of their positions but also puts these two authors into a surprisingly productive dialogue. The Power of Tolerance is a rich and compelling exchange between two of the best political theorists ... Read more

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