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Tolerance - A Sensorial Orientation to Politics (Hardcover, New)
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Tolerance - A Sensorial Orientation to Politics (Hardcover, New)
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The main task of Tolerance is to reorient discussions in democratic
theory so as better to theorize how tolerance can operate as an
active force in the context of deep pluralism. The objective is to
develop a theory of active tolerance attentive to the many
different ways in which societies can become tolerant, and to
discuss what might get lost, conceptually as well as politically,
if we don't pay attention to how active tolerance subsists within
other practices of tolerance. Tolerance exceeds existing accounts,
I argue, not because it cannot be domesticated for the purposes of
either restraint or benevolence, but because this domestication
does not preclude the possibility of another, more active
tolerance. Tolerance develops this argument by mobilizing what I
call a "sensorial orientation to politics." While a sensorial
orientation does not refute the role of reason in democratic
politics, it differs from its intellectualist counterpart by
arguing that practices of reason-giving include ways of sensing the
world, insisting that reason is always-already sensorial. A
sensorial orientation, in other words, focuses on the embodied
conditions of reasoning, which it takes to be neither completely
synergistic nor immediately present, but reliant on
representations, images, and memories, which situate sensory input
within historically defined regimes of discourse and sensation, and
which assume that sentient beings experience the world through both
thought and action, mind and body. Theorists discussed in the book
include Seneca, Spinoza, Nietzsche, Marcuse, and Merleau-Ponty,
together with Descartes, Locke, Kant, Mill, Rawls, Forst, Scanlon,
Taylor, Brown, and Connolly. Tolerance draws on a critical
consideration of these thinkers in order to shed new light on the
role of tolerance in both contemporary democratic theory and
contemporary public discourse. The aim is to show how tolerance
once again can become a practice of empowerment and pluralization.
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