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The Aesthetics of Free Speech: Rethinking the Public Sphere
John Michael Roberts
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: JHBA; JPVH2. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 463.
The Aesthetics of Free Speech: Rethinking the Public Sphere is one of the first books to theoretically explore the relationship between free speech and the public sphere. By drawing upon Marxist theory the author, John Michael Roberts, demonstrates how liberal theorists frequently construct an abstract aesthetic of 'rational', 'cultivated' and 'competent' discussion which then serves as a norm through which certain utterances can be humiliated and excluded from participating fully within the public sphere. However, the author also shows how excluded utterances develop their own aesthetic of free speech and how this aesthetic then comes back to haunt the bourgeois ... Read more
The Aesthetics of Free Speech: Rethinking the Public Sphere is one of the first books to theoretically explore the relationship between free speech and the public sphere. By drawing upon Marxist theory the author, John Michael Roberts, demonstrates how liberal theorists frequently construct an abstract aesthetic of 'rational', 'cultivated' and 'competent' discussion which then serves as a norm through which certain utterances can be humiliated and excluded from participating fully within the public sphere. However, the author also shows how excluded utterances develop their own aesthetic of free speech and how this aesthetic then comes back to haunt the bourgeois ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
277
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9781403905666
SKU
V9781403905666
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99-15
About John Michael Roberts
JOHN MICHAEL ROBERTS is Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds. He is co-editor of Critical Realism and Marxism (2001), Realism, Discourse and Deconstruction (2003) and After Habermas: New Perspectives on the Public Sphere (forthcoming, 2004).
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