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Critique of Political Tolerance- Depoliticalization of Tolerance in Multiculturalism -

Kim Sunkyu 1

1중앙대학교

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This study set out to examine critically tolerance as a political rhetoric discussed in Wendy Brown’s Regulating Aversion: Tolerance in the Age of Identity and Empire. It is not easy to find people that are against the practice of tolerance, which involves “recognizing and respecting others and their differences.” The spirit of tolerance is not always expressed in ideal ways in the process of its practice because tolerance basically takes the form of accepting different values of others that do not correspond with one’s own. Tolerance is acceptance based on refusal rather than complete acceptance, being an involuntary act to follow because it is “morally” requested. There are thus negative aspects inherent in the practice of tolerance including the further reinforcement of silent discrimination and conflict. Tolerance, in fact, appears in ways of “marking” differences of others and “reinforcing” them further. When it is misused politically, tolerance expresses the ideas of less hostility toward others and respect for all differences on the outside as well as simple connivance for those differences. In actuality, however, it can be abused to contribute to the further consolidation of old rule and superiority. The present study conducted philosophical analysis of utilization of tolerance in ways of managing otherness in suppressive methods.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.
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