The Aesthetics of Free Speech

Rethinking the Public Sphere

J Roberts author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan

Published:1st Jan '03

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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.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.

ISBN: 9781349509850

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 370g

277 pages

Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2003