Censorship moments : reading texts in the history of Censorship and freedom of expression / edited by Geoff Kemp.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kemp, Geoff, editor.

Series:

Textual Moments in the History of Political Thought

Textual moments in the history of political thought

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Censorship.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 212 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury, 2014.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

"Censorship in varying forms has been part of human experience for 2,500 years and has proved itself to be a recurring presence for political thought, whether as active repression, a shaping context for expression, or as itself a subject for analysis and argument. From the death of Socrates to the fatwa against Salman Rushdie, attempts to silence thinkers and writers have provoked passionate and often penetrating responses that speak of their historical moment. Censorship Moments will provide short, accessible and stimulating access to a variety of these responses. Each chapter will couple a short textual 'moment' of writing on censorship and freedom of expression by a past writer with analysis by an expert current scholar. The book's main focus is the public political dimension of censorship, in its relation to political authority and political thought, while also reflecting on the porous boundary to literature and other areas such as law and the media."--Bloomsbury Publishing.

Contents:

List of Illustrations

Contributors

Series Editors' Foreword

Introduction / Geoff Kemp

Chapter 1. Cato the Censor and Socrates the Tyrant / Arlene W. Saxonhouse

Chapter 2. The Case of Cremutius Cordus: Tacitus on Censorship and Writing under Despotic Rulers / Daniel J. Kapust

Chapter 3. The Peace of Babylon (and What it Censors): St Augustine of Hippo's City of God / Miles Hollingworth

Chapter 4. The Regulation of Language in Medieval Theology: The Summa Theologica of St Thomas Aquinas / Debora Shuger

Chapter 5. William of Ockham on Ecclesiastical Censorship / Takashi Shogimen

Chapter 6. 'Whether to Confiscate, Burn and Destroy All Jewish Books': Johannes Reuchlin and the Jewish Book Controversy / David H. Price

Chapter 7. To Kill a Heretic: Sebastian Castellio against John Calvin / Bruce Gordon

Chapter 8. Paolo Sarpi, the Papal Index and Censorship / Federico Barbierato

Chapter 9. Areopagitica's Adversary: Henry Parker and the Humble Remonstrance / Geoff Kemp

Chapter 10. Text and Image: William Marshall's Frontispiece to the Eikon Basilike (1649) / Helen Pierce

Chapter 11. Rara temporum felicitas: Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise / Edwin Curley

Chapter 12. Roman Censorship, Spartan Parallels and Modern Uses in Rousseau's Social Contract / Melissa Lane

Chapter 13. Censorship from Rulers, Censorship from Book Piracy: The Strategies of Immanuel Kant / John Christian Laursen

Chapter 14. The 'Censorship of Public Opinion': James Madison, the Sedition Act Crisis and Democratic Press Liberty / Robert W. T. Martin

Chapter 15. The 'Spirit of Independence' in Benjamin Constant's Thoughts on a Free Press / Bryan Garsten

Chapter 16. The Royal Shambles (1816): Hiding Republicanism in Plain Sight / Jason McElligott

Chapter 17. Mill and Censoriousness / Gregory Claeys

Chapter 18. 'Every Idea is an Incitement': Holmes and Lenin / Sue Curry Jansen

Chapter 19. Orwell: Liberty, Literature and the Issue of Censorship / Stephen Ingle

Chapter 20. Sphinx with a Secret: Leo Strauss's 'Persecution and the Art of Writing' / Thomas Meyer

Chapter 21. The Silencing of Women's Voices: Catharine MacKinnon's Only Words / Katherine Smits

Notes

Suggestions for Further Reading

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781472517241

1472517245

9781472505439

1472505433

9781472593078

1472593073

OCLC:

1024267132