What Is Free Speech?: The History of a Dangerous Idea - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Belknap PressISBN-13:9780674987319ISBN-10:674987314UPC:9780674987319Book Category:History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:World, Censorship, ModernSize:9.41 x 6.56 x 1.47 inchesWeight:1.8519Product ID:SCDG1VY3E9
What Is Free Speech?: The History of a Dangerous Idea
"A brilliant history of a weaponized mantra." --The Guardian
A leading intellectual historian shows how free speech, once viewed as both hazardous and unnatural, was reinvented as an unalloyed good, with enormous consequences for our society today. Every premodern society, from Sumeria to China to seventeenth-century Europe, knew that bad words could destroy lives, undermine social order, and...Language:EnglishPublisher:Belknap PressISBN-13:9780674987319ISBN-10:674987314UPC:9780674987319Book Category:History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:World, Censorship, ModernSize:9.41 x 6.56 x 1.47 inchesWeight:1.8519Product ID:SCDG1VY3E9
Dabhoiwala, Fara: - Fara Dabhoiwala is Senior Research Scholar at Princeton University and author of The Origins of Sex: A History of the First Sexual Revolution. Formerly on faculty at the University of Oxford, he is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, All Souls College, and Exeter College.
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