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Censoring the Word (Hardcover)
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Censoring the Word (Hardcover)
Series: Manifestos for the 21st Century - (Seagull Titles CHUP)
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"Manifestos For The Twenty-First Century" is a Seagull Series
created in collaboration with Index on Censorship, a home and a
voice for freedom of expression since it was founded in 1972. Since
the Enlightenment, freedom of expression has been regarded as one
of the hallmarks of Western democratic societies. In the 20th
Century, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights laid down the
global principle that: "everyone has the right to freedom of
expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and
to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by
public authority and regardless of frontiers."From the
Enlightenment, the ideas of Milton, Locke, Mill and Jefferson
developed into a classical paradigm of free speech which went
largely unquestioned for over two hundred years. The modern
globalised world has seen an end to such assumptions. The uproar
and violence over both "The Satanic Verses" and the Danish
"Jyllands Posten" cartoons raised the question of whether freedom
of expression - from a global perspective, most specifically an
Islamic one - is an outdated legacy of Western Enlightenment or a
vital and necessary tradition which must be protected.Increasingly,
the dominance of global media organisations and their
responsibility to reporting the facts has led to calls for
legislation for corporate freedom of expression. And, meanwhile,
all pervasive, is the Internet, the new home for individual
expression and the new home for the effective dissemination of
religious and racial hatred and criminal sexual deviance.
"Censoring the Word" asks if we now live in an age when freedom of
expression can no longer be absolute.
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