Against Free Speech

Leaker critiques the role that the defence of free speech has played in legitimising the scapegoating of oppressed minorities while deflecting attention from the egregious operations of power that have led to ever greater inequality, injustice and capitalist destruction.

List of contents

Introduction: The Free Speech Defence / 1. Liberalism Aggrieved / 2. Campus Wars and Language Matters / 3. Black Lives Matter and Decolonial Struggles / 4. Free speech and Islamophobia: From Rushdie to Charli Hebdo / 5. Why Trump Should be Silenced / Conclusion: The Right to Protest / Further Reading / Index

About the author

Anthony Leaker is a Senior Lecturer in Cultural and Critical Theory at the University of Brighton.

Summary

This book presents an accessible and carefully argued challenge to conventional approaches to thinking about free speech. Anthony Leaker provides a richer, more nuanced understanding of what free speech is and how it operates, explaining how free speech arguments are situated within a broader liberal humanist ideology.

Product details

• Authors: Anthony Leaker
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2019
• EAN: 9781786608543
• ISBN: 978-1-78660-854-3
• No. of pages: 136
• Series: Polemics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Soziale und politische Philosophie, History of Ideas, Ethik und Moralphilosophie, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Philosophy, Social & political philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Western philosophy from c 1800