Title:
The cost of free speech : pornography, hate speech and their challenge to liberalism.
Author:
Levin, Abigail.
ISBN:
9780230237681
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Basingstoke : Palgrave macmillan, 2010.
Physical Description:
213 pp.
General Note:
Acknowledgements Introduction Harm, Equality, and the Common Interest Equali Liberty, and Hard Cases Equality, Liberty, and Hard Cases: A Contemporary Vie Power and Politics: Speech Acts and Freedom of Expression Censorship and Silencing The Liberal State Reconceived: Advocacy and Jurisprudence in the Service of Equality The Courts and the Constitution: Hate Speech and Pornography in the U.S., Canada, and Europe Conclusion Appendix A: Relevant Sections of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms Appendix B: Relevant Sections of the Bill of Rights of the United States Endnotes Selected Bibliography Index.
Abstract:
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.