Wendy Brown's Perspective on Tolerance

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This paper discusses and reviews Wendy Brown's book, "Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire." The paper discusses the content of the book and specifically discusses Brown's perspective on tolerance. It suggests that Brown's work is biased by the writer's own decidedly biased liberal viewpoints, rather than representing a comprehensive historical analysis of the development of tolerance as we know it today.

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Tolerance According to Wendy Brown
Subjugation and Society

From the Paper:

"The first part of the book read like a dry political prose, steeped in political theory. However, midway through the book, Brown's style shifts to an impassioned style of writing. Brown's definition of Liberalism is an example of her passion. She paints a picture of society where our differences, held only in private drive us apart, rather than unify us. Differences would then no longer be used to allocate culture and society. Brown failed to recognize and address viewpoints that were different from her own. This weakened her argument considerably. It appears that Brown assumes that her audience will agree with her. She does not even address viewpoints, historical or contemporary that would invalidate her arguments. Brown makes her point by avoiding that which does not fit her mold."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Brown, W. Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006.
• Keohane, N. Communication & Tolerance: A Commentary on the Tinder & Wolff Papers Polity, Vol. 6, No. 4 (Summer, 1974), pp. 480-487.
• Plato. Republic. Translated by Benjamin Jowett. Project Gutenberg, e-text no 1497. http://www.gutenberg.org/catalog/world/readfile?fk_files=38607&pageno=41

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