Overview
- Reevaluates free speech against competing values in the in the context of international political and cultural tension
- Examines growing concerns about the discriminatory treatment of sexual, religious and immigrant minorities
- Illuminates 3 key issues: why we value freedom of speech; ho we weigh this against other values and how well traditional defences of this freedom can be transposed onto other cultures
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: AMINTAPHIL: The Philosophical Foundations of Law and Justice (AMIN, volume 3)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Why Free Speech?
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Proscribed speech: the limits of free expression
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Freedom of Expression in a Diverse World
Editors: Deirdre Golash
Series Title: AMINTAPHIL: The Philosophical Foundations of Law and Justice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-8999-1
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-481-8998-4Published: 27 July 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-007-3279-7Published: 05 September 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-90-481-8999-1Published: 01 July 2010
Series ISSN: 1873-877X
Series E-ISSN: 2351-9851
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 220
Topics: Human Rights, Law, general, Philosophy of Law, Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History, Constitutional Law, Political Philosophy