Regulating aversion : tolerance in the age of identity and empire / Wendy Brown.

Author/creator Brown, Wendy, 1955-
Format Book
Publication InfoPrinceton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2006.
Descriptionxi, 268 pages ; 25 cm
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Subjects

Contents Tolerance as a discourse of depoliticization -- Tolerance as a discourse of power -- Tolerance as supplement: the "Jewish question" and the "woman question" -- Tolerance as governmentality: faltering universalism, state legitimacy, and state violence -- Tolerance as museum object: the Simon Wiesenthal Center Museum of Tolerance -- Subjects of tolerance: why we are civilized and they are the barbarians -- Tolerance as/in civilizational discourse.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [207]-258) and index.
LCCN 2005036547
ISBN0691126542 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN9780691126548