| Description |
1 online resource (xxv, 227 pages). |
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polychrome |
| Series |
Aperçus
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Aperçus (Lewisburg, Pa.)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction. Freedom of speech : contemporary issues and a history / Elizabeth Powers -- Libertas philosophandi in the eighteenth century : radical enlightenment versus moderate enlightenment (1750-1776) / Jonathan I. Israel -- In praise of moderate enlightenment : a taxonomy of early moderate arguments in favor of freedom of expression / Joris van Eijnatten -- Cynicism as an ideology behind freedom of expression in Denmark-Norway / John Christian Laursen -- Alexander Radishchev's Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow and the limits of freedom of speech in the reign of Catherine the Great / Douglas Smith -- Print versus speech : censoring the stage in eighteenth century Vienna / Paula Sutter Fichtner -- Crisis of the Hispanic world : tolerance and the limits of freedom of expression in a Catholic society / Javier Fernández Sebastián -- Rousseau, Constant, and the emergence of the modern notion of freedom of speech / Helena Rosenblatt -- Toward an archaeology of the First Amendment's free speech protections / Lee Morrissey -- Conclusion. A way forward? / Elizabeth Powers. |
| Summary |
"The essays in this volume portray the public debates concerning freedom of speech in the eighteenth-century in France and Britain as well as Austria, Denmark, Russia, and Spain and its American territories. Representing the views of both moderate and radical eighteenth-century thinkers, these essays by eminent scholars suggest that twenty-first-century controversies regarding the extent of permissible speech have their origins in the eighteenth-century. The economic integration of Europe and its offshoots over the past three centuries into a distinctive cultural product, "the West," has given rise to a triumphalist Enlightenment narrative of universalism and tolerance that masks these divisions and the disparate national contributions to freedom of speech and other liberal rights"--Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Freedom of speech -- History.
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Freedom of speech. |
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History. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Powers, Elizabeth, 1944-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Freedom of speech : the history of an ideaduction. Lewisburg [Pa.] : Bucknell University Press ; Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, ©2011 9781611483666 9781611483857 (DLC) 2011028338 (OCoLC)724674373 |
| ISBN |
9781611483673 (electronic book) |
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1611483670 (electronic book) |
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9781611483857 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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9781611483666 |
| Standard No. |
9786613302687 |
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