Regulating aversion : tolerance in the age of identity and empire /
"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, racia...
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Princeton, N.J. ; Woodstock :
Princeton University Press,
[2008]
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Table of Contents:
- Tolerance as a discourse of depoliticization
- Tolerance as a discourse of power
- Tolerance as supplement: the "Jewish question" and the "woman question"
- Tolerance as governmentality: faltering universalism, state legitimacy, and state violence
- Tolerance as museum object: the Simon Wiesenthal Center Museum of Tolerance
- Subjects of tolerance: why we are civilized and they are the barbarians
- Tolerance as/in civilizational discourse.