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1 online resource |
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Anchor Books ; A297 |
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Anchor Books ; A297
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On the background of Areopagitica -- Areopagitica -- On whether Plato would have expelled Milton from the Republic -- On Milton's intolerance of the Roman Catholic Church -- The Vatican story. The Index librorum prohibitorum / Bernard Wall -- On reason, truth, and church policy -- The condemnation and recantation of Galileo -- On the historical Galileo and the figure of parable -- The life of Galileo. A few tips about science / Bertolt Brecht -- On political freedom and other people's beliefs -- Tractatus theologico-politicus. The expediency of toleration / Benedict de Spinoza -- Leviathan. Of the liberty of subjects / Thomas Hobbes -- On the exercise of government and the exercise of science -- Soviet genetics : the real issue / Sir Julian Huxley -- On governmental direction of science -- In the matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Natural science and national security / quoting John J. McCloy [and others] -- Mr. Krushchev and the trade-unionists of America -- On what news is -- A nineteenth-century opinion of newspapers : from a letter of Thomas Jefferson to John Norvell, June 11, 1807 -- On the function of the modern newspaper -- A discord of trumpets. The factual heresy / Claud Cockburn -- On opinion and the public -- Democracy in America. Liberty of the press in the United States ; The unlimited power of the majority / Alexis de Tocqueville -- On the emergence of popular opinion as a curb on power -- Memoirs of the reign of George III. The Wilkes affair / Horace Walpole -- On the dangers of preventing the questioning of authority -- Report of the arguments of the attorney of the commonwealth, at trials of Abner Kneeland, for blasphemy, in the municipal and supreme courts, in Boston, January and May, 1834. Corruption of the poor and unlearned by certain opinions -- On freedom of speech -- Free speech in the United States. Freedom of speech and the first amendment / Zechariah Chafee, Jr. -- On restricting the sale of pernicious material -- Smut, corruption, and the law / Patrick Murphy Malin -- Defence of the freedom to read : a letter to the Supreme Court of Norway in connection with the Sexus case / Henry Miller -- On the American legal attitude to obscene literature -- Opinion by Judge Bryan on Lady Chatterley's lover -- On political influence and the writer -- The captive mind. Ketman / Czeslaw Milosz -- On political persecution of writers -- Preface to De l'Allemange / Germaine de Staël -- On literature and nationalism -- The prevention of literature / George Orwell -- Letter to M. d'Alembert / J.-J. Rousseau -- On the theatre as a forum -- Speech against licensing the stage / Earl of Chesterfield -- On George Bernard Shaw and theatre reform -- The shewing-up of Blanco Posnet. The necessity of immoral plays / George Bernard Shaw -- Dream-censorship / Sigmund Freud -- On authority and freedom -- The brothers Karamazov. The legend of the grand inquisitor / Feodor Dostoyevsky |
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Includes bibliographical references |
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Censorship.
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Freedom of the press.
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Censorship
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Freedom of the press
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LAW.
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Electronic book
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McCormick, John, 1918-2010, editor.
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MacInnes, Mairi, editor.
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