Pernicious tolerance
Subtitle: how teaching to "accept differences" undermines civil society
By: Robert Weissberg.
Publisher: Transaction Pub.
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9781412806954
Subjects: Toleration; Toleration -- Study and teaching; Pluralism (Social sciences); Difference (Psychology) -- Social aspects; Civil society
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-170) and index.
Table of contents: title: Two tolerance visions : from John Locke to PBS; title: Some arduous choices on the road to social harmony; title: Preaching the tolerance gospel; title: Empirical foundations; title: Bringing tolerance by criminalizing hate; title: Summing up and a disconcerting alert.