Freedom of Speech
Elizabeth Powers Joris van Eijnatten (Innledning) Javier Fernández Sebastián (Innledning) Paula Sutter Fichtner (Innledning) Jonathan I. Israel (Innledning) John Christian Laursen (Innledning) Lee Morrissey (Innledning) Helena Rosenblatt (Innledning) Douglas Smith (Innledning)
«This intriguing history, a compilation of essays, traces freedom of speech via a number of thinkers, movements, and radical events. Elizabeth Powers offers both an introduction and conclusion that serve to question what the freedom of speech is doing in modern society and, furthermore, how the history of the idea itself, with its different incarnations, influences how we perceive this freedom worldwide ,but specifically in the West.... Freedom of Speech: The History of an Idea succeeds in providing a way to renew our understanding of the ideas that preceded the institutionalization of freedom of speech and dealing with those in a modern West.»
The Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer
The essays in this volume portray the debates concerning freedom of speech in eighteenth-century France and Britain as well as in Austria, Denmark, Russia, and Spain and its American territories. Representing the views of both moderate and radical eighteenth-century thinkers, these essays by eminent scholars discover that twenty-fi rst-century controversies regarding the extent of permissible speech have their origins in the eighteenth century. Les mer
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Detaljer
- Forlag
- Bucknell University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781611483666
- Utgivelsesår
- 2011
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
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«This intriguing history, a compilation of essays, traces freedom of speech via a number of thinkers, movements, and radical events. Elizabeth Powers offers both an introduction and conclusion that serve to question what the freedom of speech is doing in modern society and, furthermore, how the history of the idea itself, with its different incarnations, influences how we perceive this freedom worldwide ,but specifically in the West.... Freedom of Speech: The History of an Idea succeeds in providing a way to renew our understanding of the ideas that preceded the institutionalization of freedom of speech and dealing with those in a modern West.»
The Eighteenth-Century Intelligencer