Author Description

"Censorship and Silencing explores the transformation of familiar understandings of censorship. Questions involving the regulation of speech used to conform to simple, predictable political alignments, with "conservatives" set against "liberals."" "But the landscape of censorship has radically altered. Feminists join with right-wing fundamentalists to seek the suppression of pornography, while liberals ally with right-wing libertarians to protect hate speech. Underlying these developments are fundamental intellectual developments, exemplified in the work of Michel Foucault." "In this volume a distinguished and interdisciplinary set of authors examine the issue of censorship from a variety of perspectives. They inquire into the use of law as an instrument for the regulation of speech, they explore the use of state power to establish and marginalize discursive practices, and they address the question of invoking state power to regulate speech so as to redress private imbalances of power."--Jacket.