Tonder Lars (Assistant Professor Of Political Theory Assistant Professor Of Political Theory Northwestern University)
Tonder Lars (Assistant Professor Of Political Theory Assistant Professor Of Political Theory Northwestern University) - Tolerance A Sensorial Orientation To Politics - Paperback
Tonder Lars (Assistant Professor Of Political Theory Assistant Professor Of Political Theory Northwestern University) - Tolerance A Sensorial Orientation To Politics - Paperback
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Description: 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.
Title: Tolerance A Sensorial Orientation To Politics
Author(s): Tonder Lars (Assistant Professor Of Political Theory Assistant Professor Of Political Theory Northwestern University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Barcode: 9780199315819
Pages: 208 Pages
Publication Date: 10/7/2013
Category: Political Science & Theory
Description: 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.
Title: Tolerance A Sensorial Orientation To Politics
Author(s): Tonder Lars (Assistant Professor Of Political Theory Assistant Professor Of Political Theory Northwestern University)
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Barcode: 9780199315819
Pages: 208 Pages
Publication Date: 10/7/2013
Category: Political Science & Theory
