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No Escape : Freedom of Speech and the Paradox of Rights / Paul Passavant.

Passavant, Paul, author.
2002
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Title
No Escape : Freedom of Speech and the Paradox of Rights / Paul Passavant.
Author
Passavant, Paul, author.
ISBN
9780814768631
DOI
https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814768631.001.0001
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2002]
Copyright
©2002
Language
English
Language Note
In English.
Description
1 online resource
Item Number
10.18574/nyu/9780814768631.001.0001 doi
Dewey Decimal Classification
342.73/0853
Summary
Conventional legal and political scholarship places liberalism, which promotes and defends individual legal rights, in direct opposition to communitarianism, which focuses on the greater good of the social group. According to this mode of thought, liberals value legal rights for precisely the same reason that communitarians seek to limit their scope: they privilege the individual over the community. However, could it be that liberalism is not antithetical to social group identities like nationalism as is traditionally understood? Is it possible that those who assert liberal rights might even strengthen aspects of nationalism? No Escape argues that this is exactly the case, beginning with the observation that, paradoxical as it might seem, liberalism and nationalism have historically coincided in the United States. No Escape proves that liberal government and nationalism can mutually reinforce each other, taking as its example a preeminent and seemingly universal liberal legal right, freedom of speech, and illustrating how it can function in a way that actually reproduces nationally exclusive conditions of power. No Escape boldly re-evaluates the relationship between liberal rights and the community at a time when the call has gone out for the nation to defend the freedom to live our way of life. Passavant challenges us to reconsider traditional modes of thought, providing a fresh perspective on seemingly intransigent political and legal debates.
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Contents
Preface
Introduction: Freedom of Speech and the Paradox of Rights
1 Liberal Legal Rights and the Grounds of Nationalism
2 John Burgess Is to Woodrow Wilson as Individual Rights Are to Community? Nation, Race, and the Right of Free Speech
3 A Moral Geography of Liberty: john Stuart Mill and American Free Speech Discourse
4 The Landscape of Rights Claiming: The Shift to a Post-Cold War American National Formation
5 Whose First Amendment Is It, Anyway?
6 The Governmentality of Discussion
Conclusion
Notes
Index
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