The Aesthetics of Free Speech: Rethinking the Public Sphere by Roberts, J.

The Aesthetics of Free Speech: Rethinking the Public Sphere (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781349509850)

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The Aesthetics of Free Speech: Rethinking the Public Sphere by Roberts, J.

The Aesthetics of Free Speech: Rethinking the Public Sphere

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The Aesthetics of Free Speech: Rethinking the Public Sphere by Roberts, J.

The Aesthetics of Free Speech: Rethinking the Public Sphere

$54.99
Format: Paperback
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The Aesthetics of Free Speech: Rethinking the Public Sphere is one of the first books to theoretically explore the relationship between free speech and the public sphere. By drawing upon Marxist theory the author, John Michael Roberts, demonstrates how liberal theorists frequently construct an abstract aesthetic of 'rational', 'cultivated' and 'competent' discussion which then serves as a norm through which certain utterances can be humiliated and excluded from participating fully within the public sphere. However, the author also shows how excluded utterances develop their own aesthetic of free speech and how this aesthetic then comes back to haunt the bourgeois public sphere.

Author: J. Roberts
ISBN-10: 134950985X
ISBN-13: 9781349509850
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 01/01/2003
Pages: 277
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.65d
By J. Roberts
By J. Roberts
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JOHN MICHAEL ROBERTS is Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds. He is co-editor of Critical Realism and Marxism (2001), Realism, Discourse and Deconstruction (2003) and After Habermas: New Perspectives on the Public Sphere (forthcoming, 2004).

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