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A Critique of Pure Tolerance Paperback – January 1, 1997

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Essays by three authors: Beyond Tolerance by Robert Paul Wolff, Tolerance and the Scientific Outlook by Barrington Moore, Jr., Repressive Tolerance by Herbert Marcuse.

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123 pages
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English
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Beacon Pr
Publication date

January 1, 1997
ISBN-10

0807015598
ISBN-13

978-0807015599
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Beacon Pr; 5th Printing edition (January 1, 1997)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 123 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0807015598
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0807015599
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 4.8 ounces

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Bill Threlkeld

Really, reallygood.

Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2013

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This is one of the texts in a Political Philosophy class I took many, many years ago. I found it stimulating and informative. This was long before Amazon existed so I didn't buy it from them. However, I have bought three or four copies to give people over the years - at least one from Amazon.

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Matt Cyprian

Poli-Sci

Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2015

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Good for more counterpoints, decent reader for 1st year poli-sci.

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Kenwit

Dated essays by writers in the 1960's and 70's. ...

Reviewed in the United States on August 18, 2017

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Dated essays by writers in the 1960's and 70's. But considering what is going on in America today about "Free Speech" the title of the grouped essays says it all: A Critique of Pure Tolerance.

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TST.

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on March 24, 2016

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Thank you!

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Khalid Mahmood

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Reviewed in the United States on October 12, 2014

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Just great

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Herbert Gintis

Threatening Words from the Pretenders to Cultural Hegemony

Reviewed in the United States on March 5, 2018

When I was a grad student at Harvard (about 1967 or so) I was in the anti-war movement and fancied myself a Marxist (whatever that was). My friend John C was an undergrad in the movement, and was very brilliant. John related to me that his history teacher, Barrington Moore, Jr., (one of the authors of this book) gave him a bad grade on a paper because, despite judging the paper as very well done, he disagreed with it. I was appalled. Never in my life have I given a student a grade based on whether I agreed with the paper or not (of course, I expect papers to be factually correct, but to embrace my political or philosophical prejudices).

A couple of years later I was an Assistant Professor and read Critique of Pure Tolerance. I quite hated it. It espoused a doctrine of the objective truth of what are in fact simply personal opinions with emotive value but no fact value. I also read Herbert Marcuse's One-Dimensional Man, which I also hated. I had lunch with Marcuse when he was lecturing in Cambridge, Ma. I quite liked Marcuse because his was capable of changing his mind, and was mentally vigorous at an advanced age (most of my colleagues ceased thinking beyond tenure). I told him that he and his critical studies comrades were true totalitarians. They hoped for a workers' revolution, after which they would be appointed Cultural Commisars by the Great Leader of the working class, and they would teach people what to think.

At any rate, this book is the enemy of real critical dialog. The brainless post-modern humanities professors would happily feed it to their gullible students if it weren't written by a cis white male who use too many difficult words.

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Albert Rio

Marcuse is as vomitive as I expected

Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2021

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how rough, violent, and oppresive is this guy... Great book, it makes the record straight.

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