Reviews

Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire by Wendy Brown

ralowe's review against another edition

4.0

this book is for someone totally alien to the idea that liberal discourse is manipulative. i found the book useful for thinking about "tolerance"ќ more broadly, but my appreciation of this presentation is totally skewed by this agenda. brown does a good job at not saying tolerance should be completely abandoned but treated as a last resort, say if your other option is being a complete asshole. tolerance reinforces the idea of innate difference and is the strategy that suggests no other encounter with this difference is productive than putting up with it"Уthis putting up with it happens in lieu of consideration of difference is constructed by violent societal norms, histories, etc. i almost gave this book five stars because of the truly amazing chapter that details a visit to the museum of tolerance in l.a. brown thoroughly scrutinizes the flashy multimedia nightmare for us so we don't have to actually go.