Freedom of speech : the history of an idea /

"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...

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Other Authors: Powers, Elizabeth, 1944-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lewisburg [Pa.] : Lanham, Md. : Bucknell University Press ; Rowman & Littlefield, c2011
Series:Aperçus (Lewisburg, Pa.)
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245 0 0 |a Freedom of speech :  |b the history of an idea /  |c edited by Elizabeth Powers 
260 |a Lewisburg [Pa.] :  |b Bucknell University Press ;  |a Lanham, Md. :  |b Rowman & Littlefield,  |c c2011 
300 |a xxv, 227 p. ;  |c 23 cm 
490 1 |a Aperçus : histories, texts, cultures 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index 
505 0 0 |g Introduction:  |t Freedom of speech : contemporary issues and a history /  |r Elizabeth Powers --  |t Libertas philosophandi in the eighteenth century : radical enlightenment versus moderate enlightenment (1750-1776) /  |r Jonathan I. Israel --  |t In praise of moderate enlightenment : a taxonomy of early moderate arguments in favor of freedom of expression /  |r Joris van Eijnatten --  |t Cynicism as an ideology behind freedom of expression in Denmark-Norway /  |r John Christian Laursen --  |t Alexander Radishchev's Journey from St. Petersburg to Moscow and the limits of freedom of speech in the reign of Catherine the Great /  |r Douglas Smith --  |t Print versus speech : censoring the stage in eighteenth century Vienna /  |r Paula Sutter Fichtner --  |t The crisis of the Hispanic world : tolerance and the limits of freedom of expression in a Catholic society /  |r Javier Fernández Sebastián --  |t Rousseau, Constant, and the emergence of the modern notion of speech /  |r Helena Rosenblatt --  |t Toward an archaeology of the First Amendment's free speech protections /  |r Lee Morrissey --  |g Conclusion:  |t A way forward? /  |r Elizabeth Powers 
520 |a "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 
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