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245	0	0	_aSpeech and harm : _bcontroversies over free speech / _cedited by Ishani Maitra and Mary Kate McGowan.
246	1	4	_aSpeech & harm
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aOxford, U.K. : _bOxford University Press, _c2012.
300			_axviii, 255 p. ; _c22 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0	0	_tIntroduction and overview / _rIshani Maitra and Mary Kate McGowan -- _tFreedom of expression and human rights law : the case of Holocaust denial / _rAndrew Altman -- _t'Speaking back' : the likely fate of hate speech policy in the United States and Australia / _rKatharine Gelber -- _tBeyond belief : pragmatics in hate speech and pornography / _rRae Langton -- _tSubordinating speech / _rIshani Maitra -- _tOn 'whites only' signs and racist hate speech : verbal acts of racial discrimination / _rMary Kate McGowan -- _tPower in public : reactions, responses, and resistance to offensive public speech / _rLaura Beth Nielsen -- _tGenocidal language games / _rLynne Yirrell -- _tWords that silence? Freedom of expression and racist hate speech / _rCaroline West.
520			_a"Most liberal societies are deeply committed to a principle of free speech. At the same time, however, there is evidence that some kinds of speech are harmful in ways that are detrimental to important liberal values, such as social equality. Might a genuine commitment to free speech require that we legally permit speech even when it is harmful, and even when doing so is in conflict with our commitment to values like equality? Even if such speech is to be legally permitted, does our commitment to free speech allow us to provide material and institutional support to those who would contest such harmful speech? And finally, and perhaps most importantly, which kinds of speech are harmful in ways that merit response, either in the form of legal regulation or in some other form? This collection explores these and related questions. Drawing on expertise in philosophy, sociology, political science, feminist theory, and legal theory, the contributors to this book investigate these themes and questions. By exploring various categories of speech (including pornography, hate speech, Holocaust denial literature, "Whites Only" signs), and attending to the precise functioning of speech, the essays contained here shed light on these questions by clarifying the relationship between speech and harm. Understanding how speech functions can help us work out which kinds of speech are harmful, what those harms are, and how the speech in question brings them about. All of these issues are crucially important when it comes to deciding what ought to be done about allegedly harmful speech."--Publisher's website.
650		0	_aFreedom of speech _xSocial aspects.
700	1		_aMaitra, Ishani.
700	1		_aMcGowan, Mary Kathryn, _d1968-
856	4	1	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199236282.001.0001
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