The Cost of Free Speech
eBook - PDF

The Cost of Free Speech

Pornography, Hate Speech, and their Challenge to Liberalism

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  2. PDF
  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Cost of Free Speech

Pornography, Hate Speech, and their Challenge to Liberalism

About this book

The distinctly contemporary proliferation of pornography and hate speech poses a challenge to liberalism's traditional ideal of a 'marketplace of ideas' facilitated by state neutrality about the content of speech. This new study argues that the liberal state ought to depart from neutrality to meet this challenge.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Introduction
  5. 1 Harm, Equality, and the Common Interest: Towards a Framework for an Activist Liberalism
  6. 2 Equality, Liberty, and Hard Cases: A Classical View and Contemporary Responses
  7. 3 Equality, Liberty, and Hard Cases: A Contemporary View
  8. 4 Power and Politics: Speech Acts and Freedom of Expression
  9. 5 Foucault: Power, Discourse, and the State
  10. 6 Censorship and Silencing
  11. 7 The Liberal State Reconceived: Advocacy and Jurisprudence in the Service of Equality
  12. 8 The Courts and the Constitution: Hate Speech and Pornography in the United States, Canada, and Europe
  13. Conclusion
  14. Appendix A: Relevant sections of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms
  15. Appendix B: Relevant sections of the Bill of Rights of the United States
  16. Notes
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index