On toleration /:

Michael Walzer examines five "regimes of toleration"--Multinational empires to immigrant societies - and describes the strengths and weaknesses of each regime, as well as the varying forms of toleration and exclusion each fosters. Walzer shows how power, class, and gender interact with rel...

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1. Verfasser: Walzer, Michael
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1997.
Schriftenreihe:Castle lectures in ethics, politics, and economics.
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Zusammenfassung:Michael Walzer examines five "regimes of toleration"--Multinational empires to immigrant societies - and describes the strengths and weaknesses of each regime, as well as the varying forms of toleration and exclusion each fosters. Walzer shows how power, class, and gender interact with religion, race, and ethnicity in the different regimes and discusses how toleration works - and how it should work - in multicultural societies like the United States. Walzer offers an eloquent defense of toleration, group differences, and pluralism, moving quickly from theory to practical issues, concrete examples, and hard questions. His concluding argument is focused on the contemporary United States and represents an effort to join and advance the debates about "culture war," the "politics of difference," and the "disuniting of America." Although he takes a grim view of contemporary politics, he is optimistic about the possibility of coexistence: cultural pluralism and a common citizenship can go together, he suggests, in a strong and egalitarian democracy
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xii, 126 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 113-119) and index.
ISBN:0585348804
9780585348803
0300127731
9780300127737
9786611729653
6611729658
1281729655
9781281729651