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The Power of Tolerance

Paperback • 2014 • English

The Power of Tolerance

By Wendy Brown

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About the book

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 highlight...Show more

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9780231170192

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Published year

2014

Language

English

Original title

The Power of Tolerance

Format

Paperback

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