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The Politics of Difference: Statehood and Toleration in a Multicultural World[Note 1. First published in The Morality of Nationalism, © 1997 ...]
Author(s) -
Walzer Michael
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
ratio juris
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.344
H-Index - 10
eISSN - 1467-9337
pISSN - 0952-1917
DOI - 10.1111/1467-9337.00051
Subject(s) - toleration , politics , multiculturalism , enthusiasm , worship , curiosity , postmodernism , sociology , citizenship , political science , gender studies , law , social psychology , epistemology , psychology , philosophy
The author identifies four possible attitudes of tolerance toward groups with different ways of life: resignation, indifference, curiosity and enthusiasm. He explores the potential for these attitudes and concludes by discussing the role of boundaries within communities in modernism and postmodernism. The author is not going to focus on toleration of eccentric or dissident individuals in civil society; he is interested in individual rights primarily when they are exercised in common—in the course of voluntary association or religious worship or cultural elaboration—or when they are claimed by groups on behalf of their members.