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100 _aWinston, Brian
245 2 _aA right to offend: free expression in the rwenty-first century/
_cBrian Winston
260 _aLondon :
_bBloomsbury Academic,
_c2012.
300 _a414p. :
_c23cm.
505 _a 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.
650 _aFreedom of expression.
650 _aFreedom of speech.
650 _aFreedom of the press.
942 _cWB16