Screen LibraryCensorship moments : reading texts in the history of censorship and freedom of expression /
Censorship in varying forms has been part of human experience for 2,500 years and has proved itself to be a recurring presence for political thought, whether as active repression, a shaping context for expression, or as itself a subject for analysis and argument. From the death of Socrates to the fa...
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Bloomsbury,
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| Publisher Address: | London : |
| Publication Dates: | 2015. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Textual moments in the history of political thought
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Censorship in varying forms has been part of human experience for 2,500 years and has proved itself to be a recurring presence for political thought, whether as active repression, a shaping context for expression, or as itself a subject for analysis and argument. From the death of Socrates to the fatwa against Salman Rushdie, attempts to silence thinkers and writers have provoked passionate and often penetrating responses that speak of their historical moment. Censorship Moments will provide short, accessible and stimulating access to a variety of these responses. Each chapter will couple a |
| Carrier Form: | xii, 208 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781472512840 1472512847 9781472508225 147250822X |
| Index Number: | Z657 |
| CLC: | G23 |
| Call Number: | G23/C396 |
| Contents: | Cato the censor and Socrates the tyrant / Arlene W. Saxonhouse -- The case of Cremutius Cordus: Tacitus on censorship and writing under despotic rulers / Daniel J. Kapust -- The peace of Babylon (and what it censors): St Augustine of Hippo's City of Gold / Miles Hollingworth -- The regulation of language in medieval theology: the Summa Theologica of St Thomas Aquinas / Debora Shuger --- William of Ockham on ecclesiastical censorship / Takashi Shogimen -- 'Whether to confiscate, burn and destroy all Jewish books': Johannes Reuchlin and the Jewish book controversy / David H. Price -- To kill a |