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Speech Stories : How Free Can Speech Be? / Randall P. Bezanson.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : New York University Press, [2020]Copyright date: ©1998Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780814713204
  • 9780814723432
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 342.73/0853 21
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. Speakers -- Introduction -- Story One: The Jacket {Cohen v. California) -- Story Two: The Author {Mclntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission) -- Story Three: The Corporation and the Candidate (Austin v. Michigan State Chamber of Commerce) -- II. Speech and Conduct -- Introduction -- Story Four: The Burning Cross (R. A. V. v. St. Paul) -- Story Five: The Artist: Carnal Knowledge as Art, Pornography as Subordination, and the V-Chip as Family Values (Jenkins v. Georgia) -- III. The Audience -- Introduction -- Story Six: The Pharmacist: Speech and Its Consumers (Virginia State Board of Pharmacy v. Virgina Citizens Consumer Council) -- Story Seven: The Burning Flag: The Medium and the Message (Texas v. Johnson) -- Reminiscences: Reflections on Enduring First Amendment Questions -- Index -- About the Author
Summary: When we talk about what "freedom of speech" means in America, the discussion almost always centers on freedom rather than speech. Taking for granted that speech is an unambiguous and stable category, we move to considering how much freedom speech should enjoy. But, as Randall Bezanson demonstrates in Speech Stories, speech is a much more complicated and dynamic notion than we often assume. In an age of rapidly accelerated changes in discourse combined with new technologies of communication, the boundaries and substance of what we traditionally deem speech are being reconfigured in novel and confusing ways. In order to spark thought, discussion, and debate about these complexities and ambiguities, Bezanson probes the "stories" behind seven controversial free speech cases decided by the Supreme Court. These stories touch upon the most controversial and significant of contemporary first amendment issues: government restrictions on hate speech and obscene and indecent speech; pornography and the subordination of women; the constitutionality of campaign finance reform; and the treatment to be accorded new technologies of communication under the Constitution. The result is a provocative engagement of the reader in thinking about the puzzles and paradoxes of our commitment to free expression.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. Speakers -- Introduction -- Story One: The Jacket {Cohen v. California) -- Story Two: The Author {Mclntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission) -- Story Three: The Corporation and the Candidate (Austin v. Michigan State Chamber of Commerce) -- II. Speech and Conduct -- Introduction -- Story Four: The Burning Cross (R. A. V. v. St. Paul) -- Story Five: The Artist: Carnal Knowledge as Art, Pornography as Subordination, and the V-Chip as Family Values (Jenkins v. Georgia) -- III. The Audience -- Introduction -- Story Six: The Pharmacist: Speech and Its Consumers (Virginia State Board of Pharmacy v. Virgina Citizens Consumer Council) -- Story Seven: The Burning Flag: The Medium and the Message (Texas v. Johnson) -- Reminiscences: Reflections on Enduring First Amendment Questions -- Index -- About the Author

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When we talk about what "freedom of speech" means in America, the discussion almost always centers on freedom rather than speech. Taking for granted that speech is an unambiguous and stable category, we move to considering how much freedom speech should enjoy. But, as Randall Bezanson demonstrates in Speech Stories, speech is a much more complicated and dynamic notion than we often assume. In an age of rapidly accelerated changes in discourse combined with new technologies of communication, the boundaries and substance of what we traditionally deem speech are being reconfigured in novel and confusing ways. In order to spark thought, discussion, and debate about these complexities and ambiguities, Bezanson probes the "stories" behind seven controversial free speech cases decided by the Supreme Court. These stories touch upon the most controversial and significant of contemporary first amendment issues: government restrictions on hate speech and obscene and indecent speech; pornography and the subordination of women; the constitutionality of campaign finance reform; and the treatment to be accorded new technologies of communication under the Constitution. The result is a provocative engagement of the reader in thinking about the puzzles and paradoxes of our commitment to free expression.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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