Author: Mairi MacInnes
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351300075
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
Censorship and all it implies in terms both of our historical understanding and of issues of enormous moment in contemporary life defies brief definition because it is an idea that always engages our prejudices, penetrates to the dim regions where our manners and mores take form, and shapes our attitude to the rule law, while at the same time the responses it evokes, whether pernicious or benevolent, depend upon the actualities of the historical moment. Censorship is fascinating because its theory demands some decision on its practice whenever there is an intellectual or political crisis; it is a measure of individual rationality and liberalism. History, which has accelerated so powerfully in recent decades, has diffused our attention, and we tend to overlook the most urgent of the threats to ourselves from ourselves. Censorship is one of the gauges of civilization, and it has always aroused men's most passionate and partisan feelings. The issues involved exploded into the modern world with John Milton's Areopagitica in 1644, and have become ever more pressing as our world has grown smaller and smaller. This anthology is therefore of urgent relevance to our own lives and times. Milton's thesis rests upon the issue of religious belief, and it introduces the book's first part, "Censorship and Belief." With "Censorship and Fact," the book moves to the conflict of the interests of science and freedom of speech with those of the state. In "Censorship and the Imagination," the issue turns on the question of what art is and how it functions in society. And, finally, comes "Self-Censorship," with Dostoievsky and Freud opening up that modern vista where neurosis and politics meet.
Versions of Censorship
Author: Mairi MacInnes
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351300075
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
Censorship and all it implies in terms both of our historical understanding and of issues of enormous moment in contemporary life defies brief definition because it is an idea that always engages our prejudices, penetrates to the dim regions where our manners and mores take form, and shapes our attitude to the rule law, while at the same time the responses it evokes, whether pernicious or benevolent, depend upon the actualities of the historical moment. Censorship is fascinating because its theory demands some decision on its practice whenever there is an intellectual or political crisis; it is a measure of individual rationality and liberalism. History, which has accelerated so powerfully in recent decades, has diffused our attention, and we tend to overlook the most urgent of the threats to ourselves from ourselves. Censorship is one of the gauges of civilization, and it has always aroused men's most passionate and partisan feelings. The issues involved exploded into the modern world with John Milton's Areopagitica in 1644, and have become ever more pressing as our world has grown smaller and smaller. This anthology is therefore of urgent relevance to our own lives and times. Milton's thesis rests upon the issue of religious belief, and it introduces the book's first part, "Censorship and Belief." With "Censorship and Fact," the book moves to the conflict of the interests of science and freedom of speech with those of the state. In "Censorship and the Imagination," the issue turns on the question of what art is and how it functions in society. And, finally, comes "Self-Censorship," with Dostoievsky and Freud opening up that modern vista where neurosis and politics meet.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351300075
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
Censorship and all it implies in terms both of our historical understanding and of issues of enormous moment in contemporary life defies brief definition because it is an idea that always engages our prejudices, penetrates to the dim regions where our manners and mores take form, and shapes our attitude to the rule law, while at the same time the responses it evokes, whether pernicious or benevolent, depend upon the actualities of the historical moment. Censorship is fascinating because its theory demands some decision on its practice whenever there is an intellectual or political crisis; it is a measure of individual rationality and liberalism. History, which has accelerated so powerfully in recent decades, has diffused our attention, and we tend to overlook the most urgent of the threats to ourselves from ourselves. Censorship is one of the gauges of civilization, and it has always aroused men's most passionate and partisan feelings. The issues involved exploded into the modern world with John Milton's Areopagitica in 1644, and have become ever more pressing as our world has grown smaller and smaller. This anthology is therefore of urgent relevance to our own lives and times. Milton's thesis rests upon the issue of religious belief, and it introduces the book's first part, "Censorship and Belief." With "Censorship and Fact," the book moves to the conflict of the interests of science and freedom of speech with those of the state. In "Censorship and the Imagination," the issue turns on the question of what art is and how it functions in society. And, finally, comes "Self-Censorship," with Dostoievsky and Freud opening up that modern vista where neurosis and politics meet.
Versions of censorship: an anthology, ed
Author: John McCornick
Publisher:
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Category : Censorship
Languages : en
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Versions of censorship
Author: John McCormick
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Languages : es
Pages : 374
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Languages : es
Pages : 374
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Versions of Censorship$dAn Anthology
Author: John McCormick
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Languages : en
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Versions of Censorship
Author: John MACCORMICK (of the Free University, Berlin, and MAC INNES (Mairi))
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Languages : en
Pages : 374
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Languages : en
Pages : 374
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Censorship
Author: Tamara L. Roleff
Publisher: Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
ISBN: 9781565109575
Category : Censorship
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Contains twenty-five essays in which the authors debate issues of censorship and freedom of speech, considering whether the right to free speech should be restricted, and discussing censorship as it relates to pornography, schools and libraries, and the arts and entertainment industries.
Publisher: Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
ISBN: 9781565109575
Category : Censorship
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Contains twenty-five essays in which the authors debate issues of censorship and freedom of speech, considering whether the right to free speech should be restricted, and discussing censorship as it relates to pornography, schools and libraries, and the arts and entertainment industries.
Versions of Censorship
Author: John McCormick
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Censorship
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Censorship
Languages : en
Pages : 374
Book Description
Censored Books
Author: Nicholas J. Karolides
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810840386
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
A collection of essays confronting the censorship issue, including six authors' views and defenses of individual books.
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810840386
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
A collection of essays confronting the censorship issue, including six authors' views and defenses of individual books.
Places I Never Meant to be
Author: Judy Blume
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0689820348
Category : Short stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
A collection of short stories accompanied by short essays on censorship by twelve authors whose works have been challenged in the past.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0689820348
Category : Short stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
A collection of short stories accompanied by short essays on censorship by twelve authors whose works have been challenged in the past.
Versions of Censorship
Author: McCormick
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780374954437
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
ISBN: 9780374954437
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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