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Censorship moments : reading texts in the history of censorship and freedom of expression /
"Censorship in varying forms has been part of human experience for 2,500 years and has proved to be a recurring presence for political thought, whether as active repression, a shaping context for expression, or as itself a subject for analysis and argument. From the death of Socrates to the pre...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2015.
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| Colección: | Textual moments in the history of political thought.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cato the censor and Socrates the tyrant / Arlene W. Saxonhouse
- The case of Cremutius Cordus: Tacitus on censorship and writing under despotic rulers / Daniel J. Kapust
- The peace of Babylon (and what it censors): St Augustine of Hippo's City of Gold / Miles Hollingworth
- The regulation of language in medieval theology: the Summa Theologica of St Thomas Aquinas / Debora Shuger
- William of Ockham on ecclesiastical censorship / Takashi Shogimen
- 'Whether to confiscate, burn and destroy all Jewish books': Johannes Reuchlin and the Jewish book controversy / David H. Price
- To kill a heretic: Sebastian Castellio against John Calvin / Bruce Gordon
- Paolo Sarpi, the papal index and censorship / Federico Barbierato
- Areopagitica's adversary: Henry Parker and the Humble Remonstrance / Geoff Kemp
- Text and image: William Marshall's frontispiece to the Eikon Basilike (1649) / Helen Pierce
- Rara temporum felicitas: Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise / Edwin Curley
- Roman censorship, Spartan parallels and modern uses in Rousseau's Social Contract / Melissa Lane
- Censorship from rulers, censorship from book piracy: the strategies of Immanuel Kant / John Christian Laursen
- The 'censorship of public opinion': James Madison, the Sedition Act crisis and democratic press liberty / Robert W.T. Martin
- The 'spirit of independence' in Benjamin Constant's thoughts on a free press / Bryan Garsten
- The Royal Shambles (1816): hiding republicanism in plain sight / Jason McElligott
- Mill and censoriousness / Gregory Claeys
- 'Every idea is an incitement': Holmes and Lenin / Sue Curry Jansen
- Orwell: liberty, literature and the issue of censorship / Stephen Ingle
- Sphinx with a secret: Leo Strauss's 'Persecution and the art of writing' / Thomas Meyer
- The silencing of women's voices: Catharine MacKinnon's Only Words / Katherine Smits.