Regulating aversion: tolerance in the age of identity and empire

"Brown's analysis of the history and contemporary life of tolerance reveals it in a startlingly unfamiliar guise. Heavy with norms and consolidating the dominance of the powerful, tolerance sustains the abjection of the tolerated and equates the intolerant with the barbaric. Examining the...

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Main Author: Brown, Wendy 1955- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton [u.a.] Princeton University Press 2006
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Summary:"Brown's analysis of the history and contemporary life of tolerance reveals it in a startlingly unfamiliar guise. Heavy with norms and consolidating the dominance of the powerful, tolerance sustains the abjection of the tolerated and equates the intolerant with the barbaric. Examining the operation of tolerance in contexts as different as the War on Terror, campaigns for gay rights, and the Los Angeles Museum of Tolerance, Brown traces the operation of tolerance in contemporary struggles over identity, citizenship, and civilization."--BOOK JACKET.
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [207]-258) and index
Physical Description:XI, 268 S. 25 cm
ISBN:9780691126548