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Debating Hate Speech

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Debating Hate Speech
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Eric Heinze
By (author) Gavin Phillipson
Foreword by Jeremy Waldron
SeriesDebating Law
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:164
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 138
ISBN/Barcode 9781849462648
ClassificationsDewey:342.0853
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint Hart Publishing
NZ Release Date 18 October 2018
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Does hate speech undermine democracy, by attacking its most vulnerable members? Does it threaten the equal dignity of all citizens? Or are democracy and equality degraded not by hateful expression, but by censorship? Do hate speech bans give governments too much control over thought and ideas, or do bans secure the conditions for ideas to be meaningfully debated? Should each society choose its own rules? Or are some principles of free expression universal? Whom should hate speech bans protect: racial and ethnic groups, religious communities, women, sexual minorities, the disabled? Should we ban hateful words and images in public spaces but not on the internet? Heinze and Phillipson draw on law, politics, philosophy and ethics to debate these questions. For Phillipson, narrowly drawn hate speech bans are essential to the social contract - a prerequisite for democratic deliberation, and a symbolic protection of every citizen's basic dignity. Heinze replies that punitive rules imposed to silence hateful views damage democracy, and governments have more legitimate and effective means of combating harmful speech. Drawing upon European, American and Commonwealth perspectives, this book will be of interest not only to lawyers, but also to readers in philosophy, politics and journalism.

Author Biography

Eric Heinze is Professor of Law at Queen Mary University of London. Gavin Phillipson is Professor of Law at Durham University.