Just Words - On Speech and Hidden Harm

We all know that speech can be harmful. But how? Mary Kate McGowan argues that speech constitutes harm when it enacts a norm that prescribes that harm. She investigates such harms as oppression, subordination, and discrimination in such forms of speech as sexist remarks, racist hate speech, pornography, verbal triggers, and micro-aggressions.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: Preliminaries


• 2: Conversational Exercitives


• 3: On Differences Between Standard and Conversational Exercitives


• 4: The General Phenomenon: Covert Exercitives


• 5: Speech and Oppression


• 6: On Pornography: Subordination and Silencing


• 7: Race, Speech, and Free Speech Law


• Conclusion

About the author

Mary Kate McGowan is the Margaret Clapp '30 Distinguished Alumna Professor of Philosophy at Wellesley College. She received her PhD from Princeton in 1996. She works in metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophy of law, and feminism. She is the co-editor, with Ishani Maitra, of Speech and Harm: Controversies Over Free Speech (Oxford 2009).

Summary

We all know that speech can be harmful. But how? Mary Kate McGowan argues that speech constitutes harm when it enacts a norm that prescribes that harm. She investigates such harms as oppression, subordination, and discrimination in such forms of speech as sexist remarks, racist hate speech, pornography, verbal triggers, and micro-aggressions.

Product details

• Authors: Mary Kate Mcgowan, Mary Kate (Margaret Clapp ''30 Distinguis Mcgowan
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.03.2021
• EAN: 9780192897398
• ISBN: 978-0-19-289739-8
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / Political, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / Sociolinguistics, PHILOSOPHY / Language, Sociolinguistics, Social & political philosophy, Ethics & moral philosophy, social and political philosophy, Feminism & feminist theory, Ethics and moral philosophy