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Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire

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Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire

Wendy Brown, "Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire"
Pri nceton Un iversity Pr ess | 2008 | ISBN: 0691136211 | 288 pages | PDF | 1,7 MB

Review
The triumph of toleration as the central liberal value, and the attendant inability of liberals to see the dark side of their favorite virtue, is the subject of Wendy Brown's insightful and illuminating new book. . . . I find the analysis trenchant and the critique persuasive. – Stanley Fish, Chronicle of Higher Education

This is a remarkable book . . . made attractive by its passion, the lucidity of its negative critique, and its intelligence. – John Hall, Social Forces

Wendy Brown has produced a richly textured and timely analysis of some of the darker elements lurking beneath the tolerance discourse of western liberalism. – Vincent Geoghegan, American Review of Politics

[This is a] bold, erudite, and timely study. – Ely Aharonson, Criminal Law and Philosophy

Regulating Aversion is a forceful and, in many places, convincing attempt to account for the contemporary relevance and meanings of tolerance within liberalism in the West, and in the United States in particular. – Emily Grabham, Feminist Legal Studies

The strength of Brown's book is her trenchant deconstructions of the universalizing pretenses of tolerance specifically and liberal discourse more generally. Brown's intervention successfully jars tolerance loose from the hallowed transhistorical ground on which it usually rests. – C. Michael Hurst, Cultural Critique

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