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Titre(s) : Speech and harm [Texte imprimé] : controversies over free speech / edited by Ishani Maitra and Mary Kate McGowan
Édition : 1st ed
Publication : Oxford, U.K. : Oxford University Press, cop. 2012
Description matérielle : xviii, 255 p. ; 22 cm
Comprend : Introduction and overview /Ishani Maitra and Mary Kate McGowan -- ; Freedom of expression
and human rights law : the case of Holocaust denial /Andrew Altman -- ; 'Speaking
back' : the likely fate of hate speech policy in the United States and Australia /Katharine
Gelber -- ; Beyond belief : pragmatics in hate speech and pornography /Rae Langton
-- ; Subordinating speech /Ishani Maitra -- ; On 'whites only' signs and racist hate
speech : verbal acts of racial discrimination /Mary Kate McGowan -- ; Power in public
: reactions, responses, and resistance to offensive public speech /Laura Beth Nielsen
-- ; Genocidal language games /Lynne Yirrell -- ; Words that silence? Freedom of expression
and racist hate speech /Caroline West
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"Most liberal societies are deeply committed to a principle of free speech. At the
same time, however, there is evidence that some kinds of speech are harmful in ways
that are detrimental to important liberal values, such as social equality. Might a
genuine commitment to free speech require that we legally permit speech even when
it is harmful, and even when doing so is in conflict with our commitment to values
like equality? Even if such speech is to be legally permitted, does our commitment
to free speech allow us to provide material and institutional support to those who
would contest such harmful speech? And finally, and perhaps most importantly, which
kinds of speech are harmful in ways that merit response, either in the form of legal
regulation or in some other form? This collection explores these and related questions.
Drawing on expertise in philosophy, sociology, political science, feminist theory,
and legal theory, the contributors to this book investigate these themes and questions.
By exploring various categories of speech (including pornography, hate speech, Holocaust
denial literature, "Whites Only" signs), and attending to the precise functioning
of speech, the essays contained here shed light on these questions by clarifying the
relationship between speech and harm. Understanding how speech functions can help
us work out which kinds of speech are harmful, what those harms are, and how the speech
in question brings them about. All of these issues are crucially important when it
comes to deciding what ought to be done about allegedly harmful speech."--Publisher's
website
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Maitra, Ishani. Éditeur scientifique
McGowan, Mary Kathryn (1968-....). Éditeur scientifique
Autre(s) forme(s) du titre :
- Titre de couverture : Speech
Sujet(s) : Liberté d'expression
Indice(s) Dewey :
323.443 (23e éd.) = Liberté de parole
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780199236275 (pbk.). - ISBN 0199236275 (pbk.). - ISBN 9780199236282. - ISBN
0199236283
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb42703985c
Notice n° :
FRBNF42703985
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