Political Tolerance: Balancing Community and Diversity / Edition 1

by Robert Weissberg

Overview

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 Yet qualified behavioural tolerance seems to have been replaced by a blank-cheque attitudinal tolerance which threatens individual liberty and stifles free speech.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?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803973435
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	06/30/1998
Series:	Contemporary American Politics , #4
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	6.03(w) x 8.97(h) x 0.72(d)

Table of Contents

Tolerance
Tolerance Deciphered
Attitudinal Tolerance Ascendant
Tolerance Balanced
Political Diversity
Intolerance Calibrated
Achieving Political Tolerance
Propagating Tolerance

What People are Saying About This

J. Budziszewski

Prepare to rethink! Robert Weissberg's closely researched and crisply written study puts a chill on all the warmed-over platitudes of the official tolerance industry. Everything you thought was true about the subject is false; many things you thought were false were true. Closed minds will be untouchedf by the book, but for those interested in reality, I recommend it most highly. -- University of Texas, Austin