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Speech Stories How Free Can Speech Be?

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ISBN-10: 0814713211

ISBN-13: 9780814713211

Edition: 1998

Authors: Randall P. Bezanson

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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 inSpeech 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…    
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Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 1/1/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 232
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
Speakers
The Jacket (Cohen v. California)
Additional Reading
The Author (McIntyre v. Ohio Elections Commission)
Additional Reading
The Corporation and the Candidate (Austin v. Michigan State Chamber of Commerce)
Additional Reading
Speech and Conduct
The Burning Cross (R. A. V. v. St. Paul)
Additional Reading
The Artist: Carnal Knowledge as Art, Pornography as Subordination, and the V-Chip as Family Values (Jenkins v. Georgia)
Additional Reading
The Audience
The Pharmacist: Speech and Its Consumers (Virginia State Board of Pharmacy v. Virgina Citizens Consumer Council)
Additional Reading
The Burning Flag: The Medium and the Message (Texas v. Johnson)
Additional Reading
Reminiscences: Reflections on Enduring First Amendment Questions
Index
About the Author