The Cost of Free Speech: Pornography, Hate Speech, and their Challenge to Liberalism

by Dr Abigail Levin (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2010

  $59.42

  The distinctly contemporary proliferation of pornography and hate speech poses a challenge to liberalism's traditional ideal of a 'marketplace of ideas' facilitated by state neutrality about the content of speech. This new study argues that the liberal state ought to depart from neutrality to meet this challenge.