On Tolerance

Author: Michael Walzer [USA]
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Publish Date: 2000-12-01
Features: What political arrangements can enable people from different ethnic, racial, and religious groups to live in harmony? In this book, Michael Walzer, one of the most influential political theorists of the contemporary era, explores tolerant politics. The author examines five "tolerant regimes"—ranging from multi-ethnic empires to immigrant societies—and points out the advantages and disadvantages of each regime, describing the different forms of tolerance and exclusion adopted by them. At the same time, Walzer reveals in his work how power, hierarchy, gender and religion, race, and ethnicity interact within the five different regimes. Additionally, the book discusses how tolerance operates in multicultural societies like the United States and how it should operate.