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Podcast: New Discourses
Episode: Critical Theorists as Grand Inquisitors: The Logic of "Repressive Tolerance"
Description: The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 20
Repressive Tolerance Series, Part 4 of 4
In this fourth and final part of his four-part lecture series about "Repressive Tolerance," James Lindsay takes the reader from the darkest point of the essay, which was the exciting climax of Part 3, through the end of Marcuse's argument. In this part, Marcuse dedicates the rest of the original 1965 essay to explaining why it is him and people like him (that is, Critical Theorists) who get to decide what constitutes good violence and bad violence, truth and falsity, liberating tolerance from the kind that must not be...