Elizabeth Powers

Freedom of Speech (eBook, ePUB)

The History of an Idea

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The essays in this volume portray the debates concerning freedom of speech in eighteenth-century France and Britain as well as in 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 discover that twenty-fi rst-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 triumphant Enlightenment narrative of universalism and tolerance that masks these divisions and the disparate national contributions to freedom of speech and other liberal rights.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781611483673
• Artikelnr.: 38332922

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Powers was chair of the Columbia University Seminar on Eighteenth-Century European Culture from 2003 to 2010. She is a scholar of German literature and is currently writing a study of Goethe's concept of world literature.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction: Freedom of Speech: Contemporary Issues and a History 2
Libertas Philosphandi in the Eighteenth Century: Radical Enlightenment
versus Moderate Enlightenment (1750-1776) 3 In Praise of Moderate
Enlightenment: A Taxonomy of Arguments in Favor of Freedom of Expression 4
Cynicism as an Ideology Behind Freedom of Expression in Denmark-Norway 5
Alexander Radishchev's Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow and the Limits
of Freedom of Speech in the Reign of Catherine the Great 6 Print versus
Speech: Censoring the Stage in Eighteenth-Century Vienna 7 The Crisis of
the Hispanic World: Tolerance and the Limits of Freedom of Expression in a
Catholic Society 8 Rousseau, Constant, and the Emergence of the Modern
Notion of Free Speech 9 Toward an Archaeology of the First Amendment's Free
Speech Protections 10 Conclusion: A Way Forward?