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Speech and Harm - Controversies Over Free Speech (Hardcover)
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Speech and Harm - Controversies Over Free Speech (Hardcover)
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Most liberal societies are deeply committed to a principle of free
speech. At the same time, however, there is evidence that some
kinds of speech are harmful in ways that are detrimental to
important liberal values, such as social equality. Might a genuine
commitment to free speech require that we legally permit speech
even when it is harmful, and even when doing so is in conflict with
our commitment to values like equality? Even if such speech is to
be legally permitted, does our commitment to free speech allow us
to provide material and institutional support to those who would
contest such harmful speech? And finally, and perhaps most
importantly, which kinds of speech are harmful in ways that merit
response, either in the form of legal regulation or in some other
form? This collection explores these and related questions. Drawing
on expertise in philosophy, sociology, political science, feminist
theory, and legal theory, the contributors to this book investigate
these themes and questions. By exploring various categories of
speech (including pornography, hate speech, Holocaust denial
literature, 'Whites Only' signs), and attending to the precise
functioning of speech, the essays contained here shed light on
these questions by clarifying the relationship between speech and
harm. Understanding how speech functions can help us work out which
kinds of speech are harmful, what those harms are, and how the
speech in question brings them about. All of these issues are
crucially important when it comes to deciding what ought to be done
about allegedly harmful speech.
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