Censorship and silencing : practices of cultural regulation /
Post, Robert,1947-
Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities.
Los Angeles, Calif. : Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities,
c1998.
"Censorship and Silencing explores the transformation of familiar understandings of censorship. Questions involving the regulation of speech used to conform to simple, predictable political alignments, with "conservatives" set against "liberals."" "But the landscape of censorship has radically altered. Feminists join with right-wing fundamentalists to seek the suppression of pornography, while liberals ally with right-wing libertarians to protect hate speech. Underlying these developments are fundamental intellectual developments, exemplified in the work of Michel Foucault." "In this volume a distinguished and interdisciplinary set of authors examine the issue of censorship from a variety of perspectives. They inquire into the use of law as an instrument for the regulation of speech, they explore the use of state power to establish and marginalize discursive practices, and they address the question of invoking state power to regulate speech so as to redress private imbalances of power."--BOOK JACKET.
"This volume ... evolved from a symposium titled "Censorship and Silencing: Practices of Cultural Regulation," which was held at the Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities, 15-16 December 1995, in collaboration with the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Humanities Research Institute of the University of California"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Censorship and silencing / Robert C. Post -- (Un)censoring in detail: the fetish of censorship in the early modern past and the postmodern present / Richard Burt -- Incitement and the limits of law / Ruth Gavison -- Policing the past : Holocaust denial and the law / Lawrence Douglas -- Civility and censorship in early modern England / Debora Shuger -- "An immoderate taste for truth": censoring history in Baudelaire's "Les bijoux" / E.S. Burt -- The ontology of censorship / Frederick Schauer -- Public funding for science and art : censorship, social harm, and the case of genetic research into crime and violence / David Wasserman -- The tutelary state : "censorship," "silencing," and the "practices of cultural regulation" / Sanford Levinson -- Censorship in the heart of difference : cultural property, indigenous peoples' movements, and challenges to Western liberal thought / George E. Marcus -- Ruled out : vocabularies of the censor / Judith Butler -- Subordination, silence, and pornography's authority / Rae Langton -- Pornographizing, subordinating, and silencing / Leslie Green -- Freedom's silences / Wendy Brown.
"Censorship and Silencing explores the transformation of familiar understandings of censorship. Questions involving the regulation of speech used to conform to simple, predictable political alignments, with "conservatives" set against "liberals."" "But the landscape of censorship has radically altered. Feminists join with right-wing fundamentalists to seek the suppression of pornography, while liberals ally with right-wing libertarians to protect hate speech. Underlying these developments are fundamental intellectual developments, exemplified in the work of Michel Foucault." "In this volume a distinguished and interdisciplinary set of authors examine the issue of censorship from a variety of perspectives. They inquire into the use of law as an instrument for the regulation of speech, they explore the use of state power to establish and marginalize discursive practices, and they address the question of invoking state power to regulate speech so as to redress private imbalances of power."--BOOK JACKET.
Censorship
Freedom of speech
States' rights (American politics)