What is important in theorizing tolerance today?
Author(s) -
Wendy Brown,
Jan Dobbernack,
Tariq Modood,
Glen Newey,
Andrew F. March,
Lars Tønder,
Rainer Forst
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
contemporary political theory
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 1476-9336
pISSN - 1470-8914
DOI - 10.1057/cpt.2014.44
Subject(s) - sectarianism , virtue , politics , state (computer science) , sociology , power (physics) , political philosophy , critical theory , protestantism , epistemology , political economy , environmental ethics , political science , law , philosophy , physics , algorithm , quantum mechanics , computer science
if one wants to grasp tolerance politically, that is, as a problem of power and as organizing relations among citizens, subjects, peoples or states, then it must be understood, inter alia, as being enacted through contingent, historically specific discourses - linguistically organized norms operating as common sense. [...]any political discourse of tolerance - from that developed for handling Protestant sectarianism in seventeenth-century England to that used by the G.W. Bush Administration in the aftermath of 9/11 to distinguish the West from the rest, to that used by the Israeli state for describing (only) its policies toward homosexuals - is embedded within other discourses articulating the qualities and meanings of the religious, cultural, social or political order that the discourse of tolerance purports to pacify. [...]tolerance, correctly understood, is a virtue of the public use of reason
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