Freedom of Speech
The History of an Idea
The essays in this volume portray the debates concerning freedom of speech in eighteenth-century France and Britain aswell as in Austria, Denmark, Russia, and Spain and its American territories. Representing the views of both moderate and radicaleighteenth-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 an…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-61148-385-7
- EAN: 9781611483857
- Produktnummer: 11309730
- Verlag: Bucknell University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.5 cm 347 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 347
Über den Autor
Elizabeth 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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