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Book Announcement: Tolerating Aversion by Brown

By Lawrence Solum

Regulating Aversion
Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire
Wendy Brown

To read the entire book description or a sample chapter, please visit:
http://press.princeton.edu/titles/8306.html

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.

"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

Paper | $19.95 / £11.95 | ISBN: 978-0-691-13621-9
Cloth | $29.95 / £17.95 | ISBN: 978-0-691-12654-8

Full post as published by Legal Theory Blog on February 06, 2008 (boomark / email).