Liberalism Divided: Freedom Of Speech And The Many Uses Of State Power / Edition 1

by Owen Fiss

Overview

Professor Fiss examines contemporary free-speech issues in the context of the collision of liberal ideas of equality and freedom with modern social structures and speculates on what role the state might play in furthering robust public debate.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813324852
Publisher:	Westview Press
Publication date:	04/12/1996
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	202
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1550L (what's this?)

Table of Contents

Free speech and social structure; why the state?; silence on the street corner; freedom and feminism; state activism and state censorship; the right kind of neutrality; free speech and the prior-restraint doctrine; building a free press.