| The Aesthetics of Free Speech: Rethinking the Public Sphere Softcover Repri Edition Contributor(s): Roberts, J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 134950985X ISBN-13: 9781349509850 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2003 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Civil Rights - Law | Civil Rights - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Sociolinguistics |
| Dewey: 323.443 |
| Physical Information: 0.65" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.81 lbs) 277 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Aesthetics of Free Speech: Rethinking the Public Sphere is one of the first books to theoretically explore the relationship between free speech and the public sphere. By drawing upon Marxist theory the author, John Michael Roberts, demonstrates how liberal theorists frequently construct an abstract aesthetic of 'rational', 'cultivated' and 'competent' discussion which then serves as a norm through which certain utterances can be humiliated and excluded from participating fully within the public sphere. However, the author also shows how excluded utterances develop their own aesthetic of free speech and how this aesthetic then comes back to haunt the bourgeois public sphere. |