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A right to offend: free expression in the rwenty-first century/ Brian Winston

By: Winston, BrianMaterial type: Text

TextPublication details: London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2012Description: 414p. : 23cmISBN: 1849660034Subject(s): Freedom of expression | Freedom of speech | Freedom of the pressDDC classification: 323.44091821

Contents:

Prologue -- 'Free Expression is in trouble' Part One: Cases The Rushdie Affair and the Arrival of the 'fatwa' The Danish Cartoons The Dutch Filmmaker The Sikh Drama The Offended Celebrities The Media's 'Crisis of Trust' Part Two: Contexts The Enlightenment Heritage -- A Media Specific Right of Free Expression? The Increasing Force of Tolerance -- Political Correctness, Animal Rights and the Death of Soldiers From Harm to Offence -- The Common Law Moves A Clash of Civilizations? -- The Persistence of Blasphemy, the Concept of Fiction and the Notion of Satire in non-European societies Tolerance, Offence, Ethnicities, Gender, Religion and Sex Conclusion -- 'Free Expression is in trouble' II.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Books	Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section	323.44091821 WIN/R (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		P40375

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Prologue --
'Free Expression is in trouble' Part One: Cases The Rushdie Affair and the Arrival of the 'fatwa' The Danish Cartoons The Dutch Filmmaker The Sikh Drama The Offended Celebrities The Media's 'Crisis of Trust' Part Two: Contexts The Enlightenment Heritage --
A Media Specific Right of Free Expression? The Increasing Force of Tolerance --
Political Correctness, Animal Rights and the Death of Soldiers From Harm to Offence --
The Common Law Moves A Clash of Civilizations? --
The Persistence of Blasphemy, the Concept of Fiction and the Notion of Satire in non-European societies Tolerance, Offence, Ethnicities, Gender, Religion and Sex Conclusion --
'Free Expression is in trouble' II.

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