Free speech and the politics of identity
By: David A.J. Richards
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
Subjects: Freedom of speech; Identity (Philosophical concept); Discrimination
Description: Challenges the scholarly view as well as the dominant legal view outside the United States that the right of free speech may reasonably be traded off in pursuit of justice to stigmatized minorities and argues that these rights are structurally linked; the abridgement of one compromises the other. [book cover].
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-274) and index