Richards, David A. J. <br/><br/>
Free speech and the politics of identity 
David A. J. Richards. 
 - Oxford  New York  Oxford University Press  c1999. 
 - xvii, 278 p.  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references ( p. [255]-274) and index. 
<br/><br/>Introduction and methodology -- Free speech and the argument for toleration. Utilitarian models of free speech ; Perfectionist models of free speech ; The argument for democracy ; The toleration model of free speech -- The argument for toleration and the theory of social injustice. Racism as constitutional evil ; The constitutional evil of sexism ; The constitutional evil of homophobia ; The rationalization of structural injustice -- Free speech as a remedy fo structural injustice : racism. The American perspective ; Perspective under national and regional law in the shadow of Weimar ; German and French law ; European Court of Human Rights ; Canadian law ; British and Israeli law ; The perspective of public international law -- Free speech as a remedy for structural unjustice : sexism and Homophobia. Obsenity laws ; Blasphemy laws -- The scope and limits of free speech and the promise of comparative public law. The limits of the principle of free speech ;The scope of the principle of free speech ; The promise of comparative public law. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0198298862 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>99-47143 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Freedom of speech<br/>Minorities--Legal status, laws, etc.<br/>Minorities--Political aspects.<br/>Law--Philosophy.<br/>Identity (Philosophical concept)
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>K 3254  / .R53 1999