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Freedom of Speech
Elizabeth Powers
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Description for Freedom of Speech
Hardback. Series: Apercus: Histories Texts Cultures. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: 1D; 3JF; HBTB; JPVH2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 148 x 224 x 22. Weight in Grams: 478.
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. The economic integration of Europe and its offshoots over the past three centuries into a distinctive cultural product, “the West,” has given rise to a triumphant Enlightenment narrative of universalism and tolerance that masks these divisions and ... Read more
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. The economic integration of Europe and its offshoots over the past three centuries into a distinctive cultural product, “the West,” has given rise to a triumphant Enlightenment narrative of universalism and tolerance that masks these divisions and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Bucknell University Press United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Series
Apercus: Histories Texts Cultures
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Cranbury, United States
ISBN
9781611483666
SKU
V9781611483666
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About Elizabeth Powers
Elizabeth Powers was chair of the Columbia University Seminar on Eighteenth-Century European Culture from 2003 to 2010. She is a scholar of German literature and is currently writing a study of Goethe’s concept of world literature.
Reviews for Freedom of Speech
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 ... Read more