On toleration / Michael Walzer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walzer, Michael.

Series:

Castle lectures in ethics, politics, and economics.

Castle lectures in ethics, politics, and economics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights.

Toleration.

Cultural pluralism.

Multiculturalism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (144 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c1997.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

What kinds of political arrangements enable people from different national, racial, religious, or ethnic groups to live together in peace? In this book one of the most influential political theorists of our time discusses the politics of toleration. Michael Walzer examines five ; regimes of toleration; from 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. 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.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Preface

Introduction: How to Write About Toleration

Chapter One: Personal Attitudes and political Arrangements

Chapter Two: Five Regimes of Toleration

Multinational Empires

International Society

Consociations

Nation-States

Immigrant Societies

Summary

Chapter Three: Complicated Cases

France

Israel

Canada

The European Community

Chapter Four: Practical Issues

Power

Class

Gender

Religion

Education

Civil Religion

Tolerating the Intolerant

Chapter Five: Modern and Postmodern Toleration

The Modern Projects

Postmodernity¿

Epilogue: Reflections on American Multiculturalism

Notes

Acknowledgments

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references (p. 113-119) and index.

ISBN:

0-300-12773-1

9786611729653

1-281-72965-5

0-585-34880-4

OCLC:

842940047