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Tolerating Strangers in Intolerant Times - Psychoanalytic, Political and Philosophical Perspectives (Paperback)
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Tolerating Strangers in Intolerant Times - Psychoanalytic, Political and Philosophical Perspectives (Paperback)
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In this interdisciplinary and wide-ranging study, Roger Kennedy
looks at the roots of tolerance and intolerance as well as the role
of the stranger and strangeness in provoking basic fears about our
identity. He argues that a fear of a loss of attachment to one's
home might account for many prejudiced and intolerant attitudes to
refugees and migrants; that basic fears about being displaced by
so-called 'strangers' from our precious and precarious sense of a
psychic home can tear communities apart, as well as lead to
discrimination against those who appear to be different. Present
day intolerance includes fears about the 'hordes' of immigrants
confused with realistic fears about terrorist attacks, populist
fears about loss of cultural integrity and with it a sense of
powerlessness, and fearful debates about such basics as truth,
including the so-called 'post truth' issue. Such fears, as explored
in the book, mirror old arguments going back centuries to the early
enlightenment thinkers and even before, when the parameters of
discussion about tolerance were mainly around religious tolerance.
There is urgency about addressing these kinds of issue once more at
a time when the 'ground rules' of what makes for a civilized
society seem to be under threat. Kennedy argues that society needs
a 'tolerance process', in which critical thinking and respectful
judgment can take place in an atmosphere of debate and reasonably
open communication, when issues around what can and cannot be
tolerated about different beliefs, practices and attitudes in
people in our own and other cultures, are examined and debated.
Tolerating Strangers in Intolerant Times, with the help of
psychoanalytic, literary, social and political thinking, looks at
what such a tolerance process could look like in a world
increasingly prone to intolerance and prejudice. It will appeal to
psychoanalysts as well as scholars of politics and philosophy.
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