| Description |
xii, 126 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Series |
The Castle lectures in ethics, politics, and economics |
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Castle lectures in ethics, politics, and economics.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 113-119) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction. How to write about toleration -- Personal attitudes and political arrangements -- Five regimes of toleration -- Complicated cases -- Practical issues -- Modern and postmodern toleration -- Epilogue. Reflections on American multiculturalism. |
| Summary |
Michael Walzer examines five "regimes of toleration"--Multinational empires to immigrant societies - and describes the strengths and weaknesses of each regime, as well as the varying forms of toleration and exclusion each fosters. Walzer shows how power, class, and gender interact with religion, race, and ethnicity in the different regimes and discusses how toleration works - and how it should work - in multicultural societies like the United States. |
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Walzer offers an eloquent defense of toleration, group differences, and pluralism, moving quickly from theory to practical issues, concrete examples, and hard questions. His concluding argument is focused on the contemporary United States and represents an effort to join and advance the debates about "culture war, " the "politics of difference, " and the "disuniting of America." Although he takes a grim view of contemporary politics, he is optimistic about the possibility of coexistence: cultural pluralism and a common citizenship can go together, he suggests, in a strong and egalitarian democracy. |
| Subject |
Human rights.
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Toleration.
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Cultural pluralism.
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Multiculturalism.
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| ISBN |
0300070195 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780300070194 cloth alkaline paper |
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0300076002 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780300076004 paperback alkaline paper |
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