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Free Speech And Why It Matters
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Free Speech And Why It Matters
In this incisive and fascinating book, Andrew Doyle addresses head-on the most common concerns of free speech sceptics, and offers a timely and robust defence of this most foundational of principles.
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Free Speech And Why It Matters
Free speech is the bedrock of all our liberties, and yet in recent years it has come to be mistrusted. A new form of social justice activism, which perceives language as potentially violent, has prompted a national debate on where the limitations of acceptable speech should be drawn.
Governments throughout Europe have enacted 'hate speech' legislation to curb the dissemination of objectionable ideas. Silicon Valley tech giants are collaborating to ensure that they control the limitations of public discourse, and campaigners in the US are calling for revisions to the First Amendment.
However well-intentioned, these trends represent a threat to the freedoms that our ancestors fought and died to secure. In this incisive and fascinating book, Andrew Doyle addresses head-on the most common concerns of free speech sceptics, and offers a timely and robust defence of this most foundational of principles.
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Free Speech And Why It Matters by Andrew Doyle has received praise for its impassioned and scholarly approach. It's been described as a necessary and timely primer, well-articulated and delivering a comprehensive overview of free speech issues with precision and clarity.
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ISBN: 9780349135373
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 10 February 2022
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Constable
Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 14.0mm
Width: 126.0mm
Height: 196.0mm
Weight: 135g
Pages: 144
About the Author
Andrew Doyle is a writer, broadcaster and satirist whose commentary on political and cultural issues is regularly published in the national press. He is a panellist on The Moral Maze (BBC Radio 4) and often appears on Sky News. In 2019, he toured the UK with his stand-up show Friendly Fire. He is the author, as Titania McGrath, of the satirical books Woke: A Guide to Social Justice and My First Little Book of Intersectional Activism. He has a doctorate in Renaissance literature from the University of Oxford, where he also worked as a stipendiary lecturer. He was formerly a Visiting Research Fellow at Queen's University, Belfast.
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