The Power of Tolerance
A Debate
Wendy Brown and Rainer Forst debate the uses and misuses of tolerance, an exchange that highlights the fundamental differences in their critical practice despite a number of political similarities. Both scholars address the normative premises, limits, and political implications of various conceptions of tolerance. Brown offers a genealogical critique of contemporary discourses on tolerance in Western liberal societies, focusing on their inherent ties to colonialism and imperialism, and Forst reconstructs an intellectual history of tolerance that attempts to redeem its political virtue in democratic societies. Brown and Forst work from differe…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Forst, Rainer (Professor, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universitat) / Di Blasi, Luca (Hrsg.) / Holzhey, Christoph (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-231-17019-2
- EAN: 9780231170192
- Produktnummer: 15690848
- Verlag: Columbia University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 112 S.
- Masse: H13.5 cm x B20.5 cm x D0.9 cm 156 g
- Gewicht: 156
- Sonstiges: Professional & Vocational
Über den Autor
Rainer Forst is Professor of Political Theory and Philosophy and Co-Director of the Normative Orders Research Cluster at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main. His recent books include The Right to Justification, Toleration in Conflict and Justification and Critique. Wendy Brown is Class of 1936 First Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley, where she is also affiliated with the graduate program in Critical Theory. Her recent books include Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Empire and Identity, Walled States, Waning Sovereignty and Is Critique Secular? Christoph F. E. Holzhey is the founding director of the ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry and led the core project Tension/Spannung with its recent foci on Multistable Figures and Complementarity. Luca Di Blasi is University Lecturer in Philosophy at the Universität Bern. Until the end of 2013, he was Academic Assistant to the Director at the ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry. He has published widely on the topic of philosophy of religion, including Der Geist in der Revolte: Der Gnostizismus und seine Wiederkehr in der Postmoderne.
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