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...
Основен автор: | Peters, John Durham. |
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Формат: | Електронна книга |
Език: | English |
Публикувано: |
Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
2005.
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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.