The Aesthetics of Free Speech
Rethinking the Public Sphere
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