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Courting the abyss : free speech and the liberal tradition /

Courting the Abyss updates the philosophy of free expression for a world that is very different from the one in which it originated. The notion that a free society should allow Klansmen, neo-Nazis, sundry extremists, and pornographers to spread their doctrines as freely as everyone else has come inc...

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Основен автор: Peters, John Durham.
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2005.
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Подобни документи: Print version:: Courting the abyss.
Съдържание:
  • Introduction: hard-hearted liberalism
  • Saint Paul's shudder
  • "Evil be thou my good": Milton and abyss-redemption
  • Publicity and pain
  • Homeopathic machismo in free speech theory
  • Social science as public communication
  • "Watch, therefore": suffering and the informed citizen
  • "Meekness as a dangerous activity": witnessing as participation
  • Conclusion: responsibility to things that are not.