Pernicious tolerance : how teaching to "accept differences" undermines civil society / Robert Weissberg.

By: Material type: TextPublication details: New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Pub., c2008.Description: xi, 172 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781412806954 (alk. paper)
  • 141280695X (alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HM 1271 .W453 2008
Contents:
Preface -- 1. Two tolerance visions : from John Locke to PBS -- 2. Some arduous choices on the road to social harmony -- 3. Preaching the tolerance gospel -- 4. Empirical foundations -- 5. Bringing tolerance by criminalizing hate -- 6. Summing up and a disconcerting alert -- An epilogue -- References -- Index.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-170) and index.

Preface -- 1. Two tolerance visions : from John Locke to PBS -- 2. Some arduous choices on the road to social harmony -- 3. Preaching the tolerance gospel -- 4. Empirical foundations -- 5. Bringing tolerance by criminalizing hate -- 6. Summing up and a disconcerting alert -- An epilogue -- References -- Index.

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