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Political Tolerance: Balancing Community and Diversity (Contemporary American Politics) - Softcover

Weissberg, Robert

 
9780803973435: Political Tolerance: Balancing Community and Diversity (Contemporary American Politics)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0803973438 ISBN 13: 9780803973435
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 1998

Synopsis

The virtues of tolerance seem absolutely unassailable, at first glance. Yet qualified behavioural tolerance seems to have been replaced by a blank-cheque attitudinal tolerance which threatens individual liberty and stifles free speech. This argument is at the centre of this compelling book. Robert Weissberg takes a serious look at the political shifts over the past 30 years and their effect on attitudes and behaviour. What should be tolerated? Is being highly tolerant a praiseworthy virtue? Is the welcoming of differences too often merely a facade to avoid the charge of intolerance?

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Synopsis

The virtues of tolerance seem absolutely unassailable, at first glance. Yet qualified behavioural tolerance seems to have been replaced by a blank-cheque attitudinal tolerance which threatens individual liberty and stifles free speech. This argument is at the centre of this compelling book. Robert Weissberg takes a serious look at the political shifts over the past 30 years and their effect on attitudes and behaviour. What should be tolerated? Is being highly tolerant a praiseworthy virtue? Is the welcoming of differences too often merely a facade to avoid the charge of intolerance?

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Publisher
SAGE Publications, Inc
Publication date
1998
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0803973438
ISBN 13 
9780803973435
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
288