On toleration /
Michael Walzer examines five "regimes of toleration"--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 rel...
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| Médium: | Licensed eBooks |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
©1997.
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| Edice: | Castle lectures in ethics, politics, and economics.
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| On-line přístup: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=52862 |
| Shrnutí: | Michael Walzer examines five "regimes of toleration"--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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| Fyzický popis: | 1 online resource (xii, 126 pages) |
| Bibliografie: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 113-119) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0585348804 9780585348803 0300127731 9780300127737 9786611729653 6611729658 1281729655 9781281729651 0300070195 0300076002 9780300076004 |