Liberalism Divided: Freedom Of Speech And The Many Uses Of State Power

by Fiss,Owen

• ISBN13: 9780813324852
• ISBN10: 0813324858
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1996-04-12
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Professor Fiss examines contemporary free-speech issues in the context of the collision of liberal ideas of equality and freedom with modern social structures and speculates on what role the state might play in furthering robust public debate.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Free Speech And Social Structure	p. 7
Prologue	p. 8
Why the State?	p. 31
Prologue	p. 32
Silence on The Street Corner	p. 47
Prologue	p. 48
Freedom And Feminism	p. 67
State Activism And State Censorship	p. 89
Prologue	p. 90
The Right Kind Of Neutrality	p. 109
Prologue	p. 110
Free Speech And The Prior Restraint Doctrine	p. 121
Prologue	p. 122
Building A Free Press	p. 139
Prologue	p. 140
Notes	p. 159
Acknowledgments	p. 181
About the Author	p. 183
Index	p. 185
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