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Freedom of Expression in a Diverse World

The debate over the foundations and boundaries of freedom of speech, once a matter of balancing the individual rights of unpopular speakers against broader social interests, took on a new shape in the 1980s when feminists began to advocate restrictions on pornography and critical race theorists to a...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Golash, Deirdre. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
Series:AMINTAPHIL: The Philosophical Foundations of Law and Justice ; 3
Subjects:
Philosophy (General).
Philosophy of law.
Political science > Philosophy.
Constitutional law.
Philosophy.
Philosophy of Law.
Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.
Constitutional Law.
Political Philosophy.
Political Science, general.
Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8999-1
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contributors
  • Introduction
  • I: Why Free Speech?
  • 1
  • Free Speech and the Social Technologies of Democracy, Scientific Inquiry, and the Free Market; Richard Barron Parker
  • 2. Hate Speech in the Marketplace of Ideas; Steven Lee
  • 3. The <U+001c>Marketplace of Ideas: A Siren Song for Freedom of Speech Theorists; Jonathan Schonsheck
  • 4. A Kantian Conception of Free Speech; Helga Varden
  • 5. Free Speech, Equal Opportunity, and Justice; Alistair Macleod
  • II: Proscribed speech: the limits of free expression
  • 6. Is it Immoral to Prohibit Sexually Harassing Speech in the Classroom?; Thomas Peard
  • 7. , The Morality of Using <U+001c>Nigger ; Rodney Roberts
  • 8. Incitement to Genocide and the Rwanda Media Case; Larry May
  • 9. Hijabs and Headwraps: The Case for Tolerance; Anita Allen
  • 10. <U+001c>Conspicuous Religious Symbols and the French Concept of Lac̐it;̌ C. T. Sistare
  • III: Intersections with other rights
  • 11. When Free Speech Meets Free Association: The Case of the Boy Scouts; Emily Gill
  • 12. Oaths and the Pledge of Allegiance: Freedom of Expression and the Right to Be Silent; Kenneth Henley
  • 13. Speaking Freely; Wade Robison
  • 14. , Social Institutions, Transgendered Lives, and the Scope of Free Expression; Richard Nunan
  • Bibliography
  • Table of Cases
  • Index.

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