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Freedom of Expression in a Diverse World

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  • Reevaluates free speech against competing values in the in the context of international political and cultural tension
  • Examines growing concerns about the discriminatory treatment of sexual, religious and immigrant minorities
  • Illuminates 3 key issues: why we value freedom of speech; ho we weigh this against other values and how well traditional defences of this freedom can be transposed onto other cultures
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: AMINTAPHIL: The Philosophical Foundations of Law and Justice (AMIN, volume 3)

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxviii
  2. Why Free Speech?

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Hate Speech in the Marketplace of Ideas

      • Steven P. Lee
      Pages 13-25
    3. A Kantian Conception of Free Speech

      • Helga Varden
      Pages 39-55
    4. Free Speech, Equal Opportunity, and Justice

      • Alistair M. Macleod
      Pages 57-71
  3. Proscribed speech: the limits of free expression

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73
    2. The Morality of Using “Nigger”

      • Rodney C. Roberts
      Pages 87-100
    3. Hijabs and Headwraps: The Case for Tolerance

      • Anita L. Allen
      Pages 115-127
    4. “Conspicuous” Religious Symbols and Laïcité

      • Christine T. Sistare
      Pages 129-144
  4. Intersections with other rights

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 145-145
    2. Speaking Freely

      • Wade L. Robison
      Pages 177-187
  5. Back Matter

    Pages 205-215

About this book

The essays in this volume consider issues at the intersection of freedom of expression and racial, cultural, and gender diversity. The claims of those whose cultures and beliefs differ from our own are no longer the exclusive province of diplomats, as the Danish newspaper that published cartoons ridiculing Mohammed quickly learned. Negotiating the claims of freedom of expression as they come into open conflict with a wide diversity of viewpoints, both domestically and internationally, has become an increasingly complex task. The present volume seeks both to provide fresh insight into the philosophical grounds for limiting government restriction of expression and to address current tensions between freedom of expression and pluralism. The suppression of ideas by government is no doubt as old as government itself. Ideas help to keep governments in power, and opposing ideas can help them to lose it. As well, through most of the history of the world, the belief that some know b- ter than others what is true, what is right, and what is valuable has been sufficiently widespread to make it seem natural for those betters to dictate for the rest what they should believe. Just as clerics did not hesitate to dictate to their congregations, Christians did not hesitate to impose their beliefs on non-Christians in order to save their souls.

Editors and Affiliations

  • School of Public Affairs, Dept. Justice, Law & Society, American University, Washington, USA

    Deirdre Golash

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