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Author

Weissberg, Robert, 1941-

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

Imprint

New Brunswick : Transaction Publishers, 2012.

Copies

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Axe 3rd Floor Stacks	179.9 W436p 2012	---	Available

Description	xi, 172 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-170) and index.
Contents	Two tolerance visions : from John Locke to PBS -- Some arduous choices on the road to social harmony -- Preaching the tolerance gospel -- Empirical foundations -- Bringing tolerance by criminalizing hate -- Summing up and a disconcerting alert.
Subject	Toleration.
	Toleration -- Study and teaching.
	Cultural pluralism.
	Difference (Psychology) -- Social aspects.
	Civil society.
ISBN	9781412845793 (pbk. : alk. paper)
	1412845793 (pbk. : alk. paper)
	9781412806954 (cloth)
	141280695X (cloth)