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Freedom of Speech: The History of an Idea (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781611483857)
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xThe 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.
Author: Elizabeth Powers
ISBN-10: 1611483859
ISBN-13: 9781611483857
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/10/2011
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.70d
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.
Author: Elizabeth Powers
ISBN-10: 1611483859
ISBN-13: 9781611483857
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Language: English
Published: 11/10/2011
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.70d
By Elizabeth Powers
xElizabeth Powers was chair of the Columbia University Seminar on Eighteenthth-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.
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