Freedom of Expression in a Diverse World

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Golash, Deirdre (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Series: AMINTAPHIL: The Philosophical Foundations of Law and Justice ; 3
• Subjects: Law.; Political science.; Political philosophy.; Law > Philosophy.; Constitutional law.; Human rights.; Human Rights.; Law, general.; Philosophy of Law.; Theories of Law, Philosophy of Law, Legal History.; Constitutional Law.; Political Philosophy.

The debate over the foundations and boundaries of freedom of speech, once a matter of balancing the individual rights of unpopular speakers against broader social interests, took on a new shape in the 1980s when feminists began to advocate restrictions on pornography and critical race theorists to a...