Fara Dabhoiwala

Gebundenes Buch

What Is Free Speech?

The History of a Dangerous Idea

Beschreibung

Fara Dabhoiwala argues that free speech, though a central democratic value, owes its origin and evolution less to high-minded ideals than to venal interests. Shaped by greed, technological change, and the insoluble challenges of slander and falsehood, free speech is inherently contradictory-both a basis of liberty and a weapon of the powerful.

Autor

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Seitenzahl: 480
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. August 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 165mm x 40mm
• Gewicht: 842g
• ISBN-13: 9780674987319
• ISBN-10: 0674987314
• Artikelnr.: 72216233

Rezensionen

A brilliant history [of what] has long been a "weaponized mantra" in a public sphere dominated by the moneyed and the powerful, this fascinating book questions whether such a misunderstood ideal should be lauded as an end in itself ... Dabhoiwala wants us to think of free speech in terms of which voices are heard most loudly and which are marginalised ... meticulous and much-needed. Joe Moran Guardian