The Power of Tolerance: A Debate

by Wendy Brown and Rainer Forst

Book Overview

We invoke the ideal of tolerance in response to conflict, but what does it mean to answer conflict with a call for tolerance? Is tolerance a way of resolving conflicts or a means of sustaining them? Does it transform conflicts into productive tensions, or does it perpetuate underlying power relations? To what extent does tolerance hide its involvement with power and act as a form of depoliticization?

Wendy Brown and Rainer Forst debate the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 023117019X
• ISBN13: 9780231170192
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 4.7" x 7.8"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher