Tolerance is often considered a practice of restraint motivated by either respect or benevolence. But might there be something else to the practice of tolerance that makes it more than a way of constricting the actions of citizens who disagree? In this pioneering book, Lars Tonder turns the attention to tolerance's sensorial side in order to clarify the circumstances in which tolerance can become a source of empowerment and pluralization that goes beyond the image of citizenship currently on offer in contemporary democratic theory.