Modern Power and Free Speech
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Modern Power and Free Speech

Contemporary Culture and Issues of Equality

  1. 249 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Modern Power and Free Speech

Contemporary Culture and Issues of Equality

About this book

Modern Power and Free Speech explores the complicated relationship between the First Amendment and culturally disempowered and groups within the United States. By focusing on hate speech, Internet pornography, and political dissent, Chris Demaske analyzes First Amendment discourse and doctrine and questions the role of the concept of the autonomous individual. Demaske asserts that the presupposed equality of so-called "autonomous individuals" does not exist and goes on to show how these specious claims to equality only serve to further silence those marginalized members of American society.

Combining legal analysis, First Amendment theory, feminist theory, and political theory, Chris Demaske addresses the inadequacies of current free-speech doctrine and provides a possible solution to remedy them.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction: A Critical Approach to Free Speech
  4. Chapter 01. Theories of the First Amendment
  5. Chapter 02. Liberalism and the Legal History of Free Speech
  6. Chapter 03. Agency and the Evolution of First Amendment Analysis
  7. Chapter 04. Rethinking Hate Speech: Skokie and R.A.V.
  8. Chapter 05. Virginia v. Black: An Evolution in First Amendment Doctrine?
  9. Chapter 06. The Internet: (Re)Assessing the Pornography Question
  10. Chapter 07. Terrorism and the Culture of Fear
  11. Conclusion: A New First Amendment Emerges
  12. Appendix
  13. Bibliography
  14. Index