The Cost of Free Speech: Pornography, Hate Speech, and their Challenge to Liberalism
- ISBN-10
- 0230293964
- ISBN-13
- 9780230293960
- Category
- Philosophy
- Pages
- 213
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2010-09-29
- Publisher
- Springer
- Author
- A. Levin
Description
The distinctly contemporary proliferation of pornography and hate speech poses a challenge to liberalism's traditional ideal of a 'marketplace of ideas' facilitated by state neutrality about the content of speech. This new study argues that the liberal state ought to depart from neutrality to meet this challenge.
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