Professor Fiss examines contemporary free-speech issues in the context of the collision of liberal ideas of equality and freedom with modern social structures and speculates on what role the state might play in furthering robust public debate.
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Freedom of expression, long an issue that united liberals, now serves to drive them apart. This book analyzes the pressure on liberal thought resulting from such controversies as pornography, Mapplethorpe and artistic expression, and the rights of street-corner orators.

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Free speech and social structure; why the state?; silence on the street corner; freedom and feminism; state activism and state censorship; the right kind of neutrality; free speech and the prior-restraint doctrine; building a free press.

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ISBN
9780813324852
Publisert
1996-04-12
Utgiver
Vendor
Westview Press Inc
Vekt
290 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
202

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