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On Toleration (Revised) (Castle Lectures in Ethics, Politics, & Economics (Hardcover)) - Softcover

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Walzer, Michael

 
9780300076004: On Toleration (Revised) (Castle Lectures in Ethics, Politics, & Economics (Hardcover))
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0300076002 ISBN 13: 9780300076004
Verlag: Yale University Press, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

What kinds of political arrangements enable people from different national, racial, religious, or ethnic groups to live together in peace? In this book one of the most influential political theorists of our time discusses the politics of toleration. Michael Walzer examines five "regimes of toleration"—from multinational empires to immigrant societies—and describes the strengths and weaknesses of each regime, as well as the varying forms of toleration and exclusion each fosters. Walzer shows how power, class, and gender interact with religion, race, and ethnicity in the different regimes and discusses how toleration works—and how it should work—in multicultural societies like the United States.

Walzer offers an eloquent defense of toleration, group differences, and pluralism, moving quickly from theory to practical issues, concrete examples, and hard questions. His concluding argument is focused on the contemporary United States and represents an effort to join and advance the debates about "culture war," the "politics of difference," and the "disuniting of America." Although he takes a grim view of contemporary politics, he is optimistic about the possibility of coexistence: cultural pluralism and a common citizenship can go together, he suggests, in a strong and egalitarian democracy.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Michael Walzer is UPS Foundation Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. He is the coeditor of Dissent and a contributing editor at The New Republic and is the author or editor of more than a dozen books, including Interpretation and Social Criticism, Just and Unjust Wars, The Company of Critics, and Spheres of Justice.

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Verlag
Yale University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1999
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0300076002
ISBN 13 
9780300076004
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
142
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