On toleration Michael Walzer

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walzer, Michael.

Series:

Castle lectures in ethics, politics, and economics

The Castle lectures in ethics, politics, and economics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human rights.

Toleration.

Cultural pluralism.

Multiculturalism.

Physical Description:

xii, 126 p. ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c1997.

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.

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:

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.

Notes:

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

Local Notes:

The Balch Institute Library and Archives.

ISBN:

0300070195 (cloth : alk. paper)

9780300070194 (cloth : alk. paper)

0300076002 (pbk. : alk. paper)

9780300076004 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

35842615