| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Harm, Equality, and the Common Interest -- Equality, Liberty, and Hard Cases -- Equality, Liberty, and Hard Cases: A Contemporary View -- Power and Politics: Speech Acts and Freedom of Expression -- Censorship and Silencing -- The Liberal State Reconceived: Advocacy and Jurisprudence in the Service of Equality -- The Courts and the Constitution: Hate Speech and Pornography in the U.S., Canada, and Europe -- Conclusion -- Appendix A: Relevant Sections of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms -- Appendix B: Relevant Sections of the Bill of Rights of the United States |
| Summary |
The proliferation of pornography and hate speech in contemporary democratic cultures threatens the liberal ideal of a marketplace of ideas, unhampered by state regulation of speech. Pornographic and hate speech, because it threatens to silence the competing speech of women and minorities, calls into question the liberal orthodoxies of state neutrality about the content of speech, as well as the traditional primacy of the value of liberty over the value of equality. By drawing on a broad range of philosophical traditions - from classical and contemporary liberalism, to Continental philosophy, speech act theory, critical race theory, feminism, and philosophy of law. The Cost of Free Speech argues that how courts resolve freedom of expression cases involving pornography or hate speech reveals more about the power of state speech to potentially oppress women and minorities than it does about the power of pornography and hate speech themselves. Once the liberal state becomes aware of the power of its own speech, the values of neutrality and liberty recede and the value of equality emerges as the true goal of liberalism |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Freedom of speech.
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Hate speech.
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Pornography.
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Erotica
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pornography.
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Social & political philosophy.
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Freedom of information & freedom of speech.
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Ethical issues: pornography & obscenity.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights.
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Philosophy.
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Freedom of speech
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Hate speech
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Pornography
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Redefreiheit
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Meinungsfreiheit
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Obszönität
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Hass
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Liberalismus.
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Redefreiheit.
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Missbrauch.
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Pornografi.
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Yttrandefrihet.
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Informationsfrihet.
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Hets mot folkgrupp.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780230293960 |
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0230293964 |
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1349315060 |
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9781349315062 |
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