Brown / Forst - The Power of Tolerance

Wendy Brown / Rainer Forst The Power of Tolerance

A Debate

Edited by Luca Di Blasi and Christoph F.E. Holzhey

(English language)

The ideal of tolerance is only invoked once there is a conflict. But what does it mean to answer a conflict with a call for tolerance? Is tolerance a way of resolving conflicts or rather a means of sustaining them? Does tolerance help to turn conflicts into productive tensions or does it perpetuate underlying power relations? To what extent does tolerance hide its involvement with power and thereby constitute a form of de-politicization?

Two major theoreticians and critics of tolerance – Wendy Brown and Rainer Forst – discussed such questions at the ICI Berlin, organized and moderated by Antke Engel. In an intense debate, in which fundamental issues between different critical traditions became visible despite political similiarities, both scholars discussed different notions of tolerance, their normative premises, limits, and political implications.

Biographisches:

WENDY BROWN is Class of 1936 First Professor of Political Science at the University of California Berkeley. Her work in political theory focuses on questions of power, the making of subjects and citizens, sovereignty, democracy, and de-democratization; she also has longstanding interests in theories of capitalism and in feminist and critical race theory. Her work has been translated into more than twenty languages.
RAINER FORST is Professor of Political Theory and Philosophy at the Goethe University Frankfurt a. M. and Co-Director of the Research Cluster on the ‘Formation of Normative Orders’ of the Centre for Advanced Studies ‘Justitia Amplificata’. His work focuses on questions of justification, justice, and toleration. In 2012, he received the prestigious Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Price of the German Research Foundation.

Reihe: Cultural Inquiry. Edited by Christoph F. E. Holzhey and Manuele Gragnolati

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ISBN 978-3-85132-731-1
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Erstauflage: 2014
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