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Regulating Aversion

Paperback • 2008 • English

Regulating Aversion

By Wendy Brown

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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 to...Show more

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9780691136219

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published year

2008

Language

English

Original title

Regulating Aversion

Format

Paperback

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