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Freedom of Expression and Human Rights - Historical, Literary and Political Contexts (Hardcover, New)
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Freedom of Expression and Human Rights - Historical, Literary and Political Contexts (Hardcover, New)
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Provides a critical and contentious overview of the fundamental
relationship between writing and political dissent from early Greek
democracy to post-Enlightenment forms of totalitarianism, such as
Communism, Fascism and Nazism and through to modern forms of
liberal democracy based upon universal human rights encapsulated by
the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Complementing such
historical contexts, this book explores the range of predominantly
theological and religious, civil and political, social and cultural
rationales for contemporary repression, contending that in the
modern age at least freedom of expression issues are deeply
affected not only by national law but that factors of a
transnational (ideological or theological) nature. Finally --
through a review key inter-governmental and non-governmental (NGO)
agencies -- the book examines current geo-political trends in the
denial of freedom of expression, highlighting post-Cold War and
post-September 11 shifts in political and religious repression, a
movement in the locale of freedom of expression issues (especially
towards electronic forms and Internet) and a heightening of global
and transnational dimensions in freedom of expression. The book
provides also a substantial series of appendices for scholars,
researchers and activists interested in furthering investigation of
issues in writing and human rights. A companion volume to "Human
Rights & Religion", the book provides appendices for all those
activists interested in furthering investigation of issues in
writing and human rights.
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