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Original Title:	Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire
ISBN:	0691126542 (ISBN13: 9780691126548)
Edition Language:	English

Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire

Wendy Brown

Hardcover | Pages: 268 pages

Rating: 4.23 | 196 Users | 21 Reviews

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Title	:	Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire
Author	:	Wendy Brown
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 268 pages
Published	:	August 20th 2006 by Princeton University Press (first published July 31st 2006)
Categories	:	Philosophy. Politics. Nonfiction. Theory. Academic. Race. GLBT. Queer

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Tolerance is generally regarded as an unqualified achievement of the modern West. Emerging in early modern Europe to defuse violent religious conflict and reduce persecution, tolerance today is hailed as a key to decreasing conflict across a wide range of other dividing lines-- cultural, racial, ethnic, and sexual. But, as political theorist Wendy Brown argues in Regulating Aversion, tolerance also has dark and troubling undercurrents.


Dislike, disapproval, and regulation lurk at the heart of tolerance. To tolerate is not to affirm but to conditionally allow what is unwanted or deviant. And, although presented as an alternative to violence, tolerance can play a part in justifying violence--dramatically so in the war in Iraq and the War on Terror. Wielded, especially since 9/11, as a way of distinguishing a civilized West from a barbaric Islam, tolerance is paradoxically underwriting Western imperialism.


Brown's analysis of the history and contemporary life of tolerance reveals it in a startlingly unfamiliar guise. Heavy with norms and consolidating the dominance of the powerful, tolerance sustains the abjection of the tolerated and equates the intolerant with the barbaric. Examining the operation of tolerance in contexts as different as the War on Terror, campaigns for gay rights, and the Los Angeles Museum of Tolerance, Brown traces the operation of tolerance in contemporary struggles over identity, citizenship, and civilization.

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Highly interesting and, unfortunately, highly relevant, this is a book I'm taking with me for the seminar I'm writing on Secularity. The breadth of the material covered is amazing, what is even more noteworthy is the density of the writing. Every word counts, and that's not an easy fit, to say the least. The time did take its tall, as the references to George Bush Jr. do seem a bit dated, and yet it is quite easily one of the more important books I've read this year.

The writing is kind of ponderous, but what she has to say is not only I believe valid but important. A lot of valuable insights and food for thought.

As usual, a very good critical account of the liberal state from Brown. Also a very good reminder to those who emulate liberal societies for a multiculturalist talk.

Way too many people we encounter throw-off the tolerance word never fully comprehending what it is they mean by tolerance, but when someone dares look-up the word in a good dictionary, that someone will find that the actual meanings of tolerance are nowhere near commonly misused synonyms like acceptance or equality. What this means is that Wendy Brown's "Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire" is one of those books you are lucky to find even if it constitutes difficult

Regulating Aversion is an intelligent and insightful but ultimately frustrating critique of tolerance discourse in western liberalism. Brown lays bare the hypocrisies of tolerance, as well as its troubling ties to empire and violence. Her chapter about the Museum of Tolerance is an excellent piece of criticism and the book as a whole skillfully undermines western liberalism's pretensions to universality and justice. But Brown mostly smashes idols and reveals inconsistencies, which brings her

Wendy L. Brown is an American political theorist. She is Class of 1963 First Professor of Political Science and a core faculty member in The Program for Critical Theory at the University of California, Berkeley.

A must-read. "Today, we hear from every corner, differences matter. If not intrinsic and permanent - which is what much popular and scientific discourse holds - they are at least considered highly intractable. And tolerance is required because they are intractable. Indeed, as the homosexuality-is-curable advocates make clear, differences eligible for transformation do not require tolerance. Tolerance arises at the dusk of Enlightenment Man not to relieve us of the problem of difference but to