Speech and Harm
Controversies Over Free Speech
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 31 May 2012
- ISBN 9780199236275
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages280 pages
- Size 215x140x15 mm
- Weight 370 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Most liberal societies are deeply committed to free speech, but there is evidence that some kinds of speech can be harmful in ways that are detrimental to important liberal values, such as social inequality. This volume draws on a range of approaches in order to explore the problem and determine what ought to be done about allegedly harmful speech.
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Most liberal societies are deeply committed to a principle of free speech. At the same time, however, there is evidence that some kinds of speech are harmful in ways that are detrimental to important liberal values, such as social equality. Might a genuine commitment to free speech require that we legally permit speech even when it is harmful, and even when doing so is in conflict with our commitment to values like equality? Even if such speech is to be legally permitted, does our commitment to free speech allow us to provide material and institutional support to those who would contest such harmful speech? And finally, and perhaps most importantly, which kinds of speech are harmful in ways that merit response, either in the form of legal regulation or in some other form?
This collection explores these and related questions. Drawing on expertise in philosophy, sociology, political science, feminist theory, and legal theory, the contributors to this book investigate these themes and questions. By exploring various categories of speech (including pornography, hate speech, Holocaust denial literature, 'Whites Only' signs), and attending to the precise functioning of speech, the essays contained here shed light on these questions by clarifying the relationship between speech and harm. Understanding how speech functions can help us work out which kinds of speech are harmful, what those harms are, and how the speech in question brings them about. All of these issues are crucially important when it comes to deciding what ought to be done about allegedly harmful speech.
The speech-act turn in free speech theory is best understood, therefore, not merely as being about pornography, or about hate speech more generally, but as a new way of thinking about speech, its value, and its dangers. . . . it is an important new direction, and one that is both consolidated and taken a step further in much that is contained in this important collection.
Table of Contents:
Contents
Foreword
Introduction and Overview
Freedom of Expression and Human Rights Law: The Case of Holocaust Denial
'Speaking Back': The Likely Fate of Hate Speech Policy in the United States and Australia
Subordinating Speech
On 'Whites Only' Signs and Racist Hate Speech: Verbal Acts of Racial Discrimination
Beyond Belief: Pragmatics in Hate Speech and Pornography
Power in Public: Reactions, Responses and Resistance to Offensive Public Speech
Genocidal Language Games
Words that Silence? Freedom of Expression and Racist Hate Speech
Index
