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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Lewisburg [Pa.] : Lanham, Md. :
Bucknell University Press ; Rowman & Littlefield,
c2011
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| Series: | Aperçus (Lewisburg, Pa.)
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Table of 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
- The 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 speech / Helena Rosenblatt
- Toward an archaeology of the First Amendment's free speech protections / Lee Morrissey
- Conclusion: A way forward? / Elizabeth Powers