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Freedom of speech and the function of rhetoric in the United States / Michael Donnelly.
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Donnelly, Michael, 1968-
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English
Published/Created
Lanham : Lexington Books, [2017]
©2017
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xxi, 97 pages ; 24 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
JC591 .D65 2017
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Freedom of speech
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United States
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Rhetoric
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Political aspects
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United States
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Summary note
Freedom of speech is a major component of the cultural context in which we live, think, work, and write, generally revered as the foundation of true democracy. But the issue has a great deal more to do with social organizations generally, and in a democratic society specifically. The dominant, liberal notion of free speech in the United States, assumed to be self-evidently true, is, in fact, a particular historical and cultural formation, rooted in Enlightenment philosophies and dependent on a collection of false narratives about the founding of the country, the role of speech and media in its development, and the relationship between capitalism and democracy. Most importantly, this notion of freedom of speech relies on a warped sense of the function of rhetoric in democratic social organization. By privileging individual expression at the expense of democratic deliberation, the liberal notion of free speech functions largely to suppress rather than promote meaningful public discussion and debate and works to sustain unequal relations of power. The presumed democratization of the public sphere, via the Internet, raises more questions than it answers: who has access and who doesn't, who commands attention and why, and what sorts of effects such expression actually has. We need to think a great deal more carefully about the values subsumed and ignored in an uncritical attachment to a particular version of the public sphere. Freedom of Speech and the Function of Rhetoric in the United States seeks to illuminate the ways in which cultural framing diminishes the complexity of free speech and sublimates a range of value choices. A more fully democratic society requires a more critical view of freedom of speech. -- from back cover.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 83-89) and index.
Contents
Introduction : the function of rhetoric at the present time
Freedom of speech in the United States
Publicness and models of the public sphere
Parrhesia and/in the democratic state
Freedom of speech in the twentieth century
Free speech and hate speech in the age of the Internet.
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ISBN
9781498513555 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
1498513557 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
1498513565
9781498513562
9781498548922 (paperback)
149854892X (paperback)
LCCN
2016045734
OCLC
967148865
Other standard number
99970899879
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