Winston, Brian

A right to offend: free expression in the rwenty-first century/ Brian Winston - London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2012. - 414p. : 23cm.

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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Freedom of expression.
Freedom of speech.
Freedom of the press.

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