Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire by Wendy Brown
Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire by Wendy Brown
English | July 31, 2006 | ISBN: 0691126542 | 283 Pages | PDF | 1 MB
English | July 31, 2006 | ISBN: 0691126542 | 283 Pages | PDF | 1 MB
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, racial, ethnic, and sexual. But, as political theorist Wendy Brown argues in Regulating Aversion, tolerance also has dark and troubling undercurrents.