On toleration / Michael Walzer.
On toleration / Michael Walzer.
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New Haven : Yale University Press, c1997.
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N305.8/80
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English
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xii, 126 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents
Introduction: How to Write About Toleration -- Ch. 1. Personal Attitudes and Political Arrangements -- Ch. 2. Five Regimes of Toleration. Multinational Empires. International Society. Consociations. Nation-States. Immigrant Societies. Summary -- Ch. 3. Complicated Cases. France. Israel. Canada. The...
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 abou...
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New Haven : Yale University Press, c1997.
Place of Publication
Connecticut
Date Published
c1997.
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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...
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On toleration / Michael Walzer.
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The Castle lectures in ethics, politics, and economics.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 113-119) and index.
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c1997.
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N305.8/80
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74VvppLpR2Pd
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ISBN
0300076002 (pbk.)
9780300070194 (cloth : alk. paper)
0300070195 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780300076004 (pbk.)
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305.8
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991005148809702626
