Name: Free Speech And Why It Matters von Andrew Doyle
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Free Speech And Why It Matters Zusammenfassung

Free Speech And Why It Matters Andrew Doyle

'Impassioned, scholarly and succinct' The Times

FREE SPEECH AND WHY IT MATTERS

Free speech is the bedrock of all our liberties, and yet in recent years it has come to be mistrusted. A new form of social justice activism, which perceives language as potentially violent, has prompted a national debate on where the limitations of acceptable speech should be drawn. Governments throughout Europe have enacted 'hate speech' legislation to curb the dissemination of objectionable ideas, Silicon Valley tech giants are collaborating to ensure that they control the limitations of public discourse, and campaigners in the US are calling for revisions to the First Amendment.

However well-intentioned, these trends represent a threat to the freedoms that our ancestors fought and died to secure. In this incisive and fascinating book, Andrew Doyle addresses head-on the most common concerns of free speech sceptics, and offers a timely and robust defence of this most foundational of principles.

Free Speech And Why It Matters Bewertungen

Impassioned, scholarly and succinct -- Dominic Maxwell * The Times *
The primer that we have been needing for some time * Areo magazine *
A fantastically timely book written by one of the smartest thinkers in Britain * Piers Morgan *
A powerful, timely and sadly necessary book * Richard Dawkins *
Doyle's book is terse, restrained, and as carefully argued as a QC's summing-up in a top-drawer courtroom drama . . . a beautifully balanced and comprehensive overview * The Critic *

Über Andrew Doyle

Andrew Doyle is a writer, broadcaster and satirist whose commentary on political and cultural issues is regularly published in the national press. He is a panellist on The Moral Maze (BBC Radio 4) and often appears on Sky News. In 2019, he toured the UK with his stand-up show Friendly Fire. He is the author, as Titania McGrath, of the satirical books Woke: A Guide to Social Justice and My First Little Book of Intersectional Activism. He has a doctorate in Renaissance literature from the University of Oxford, where he also worked as a stipendiary lecturer. He was formerly a Visiting Research Fellow at Queen's University, Belfast.

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Sku

GOR012322033

ISBN 13

9780349135373

ISBN 10

0349135371

Titel

Free Speech And Why It Matters Andrew Doyle

Autor

Andrew Doyle

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Gebraucht - Sehr Gut

Bindung

Broschiert

Verlag

Little, Brown Book Group

Datum

20220210

Anzahl der Seiten

144

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