New Directions in the Ethics and Politics of Speech

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Taylor & Francis 2023
• Series: Political Philosophy for the Real World
• Subjects: Ethics & moral philosophy; Social & political philosophy; Alice Dreger;Andrew I. Cohen;Andrew J. Cohen;Big Tech;Black Like Me;Brandon Warmke;censorship;conservatism;deplatforming;discourse;disloyalty;exit blocking;freedom of speech;free expression;free speech;gestural freedom;Hrishikesh Joshi;ideological homogeneity;Justin Tosi;J.P. Messina;Kathryn Lynch;Luke Sheahan;Molly McGrath;marketplace of ideas;non-state censorship;partisanship;political correctness;political philosophy;Ryan Muldoon;repression
• Online Access: Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication; Open Access: DOAB, download the publication
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (162 p.)
• ISBN: 9781000652772; 9781003240785; 9781032146300; 9781032147314
• Access: Open Access

This book features new perspectives on the ethics and politics of free speech. Contributors draw on insights from philosophy, psychology, political theory, journalism, literature, and history to respond to pressing problems involving free speech in liberal societies. Recent years have seen an explosion of academic interest in free speech. However, most recent work has focused on constitutional protections for free speech and on issues related to academic freedom and campus politics. The chapters in this volume set their sights more broadly on the non-state problems that we collectively face in attempting to realize a healthy environment for free discourse. The volume's contributors share the assumption that threats to free speech do not come exclusively from state sources or bad actors, but from ordinary strategic situations in which all may be acting in good faith. Contributors take seriously the idea that our current cultural moment provides plenty of reason to be concerned about our intellectual climate and offer new insights for how to make things better.　 New Directions in the Ethics and Politics of Speech will be of interest to researchers and students working in ethics, political philosophy, social theory, and law.