The liberal vision of tolerance is widely if not unanimously supported, even within liberal
societies. It is not uncontested, especially outside the West.(Of course, the same can be said …

Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire. By Wendy Brown.
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. 282p. $29.95. Globalization, population …

In a time of religious and political conflict, tolerance seems more important than ever. But
what kind of political subjectivity does tolerance produce, and how does the state participate …

Although Brown identifies many distasteful aspects of tolerance, including the sense of
superiority that accompanies the act of toleration, its investment in managing rather than …

Brown's Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire travels in another
direction, taking to task uncritical valorization of tolerance as concept and practice in the …

In a time of religious and political conflict, tolerance seems more important than ever. But
what kind of political subjectivity does tolerance produce, and how does the state participate …

Despite incessant theorising about difference, and frequent forebodings about the immensity
of the challenge that forms of identity-related pluralism pose for liberal constitutional states …

Since the mid-1980s, the discourse of tolerance has become a remedy for the bigotry and
hatred among differences, and is presented as key to a peaceful coexistence. Regulating …

Although tolerance is typically characterized as an ideal that is taught, preached,
promulgated, and sometimes fought for, Wendy Brown argues that it is neither a universal …

Over six years of working intermittently on this book, I have acquired many debts. Rainer
Forst sparked the project with his invitation to revisit Marcuse's essay “Repressive …