No escape : freedom of speech and the paradox of rights /

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Author / Creator:	Passavant, Paul A. (Paul Andrew)
Imprint:	New York : New York University Press, ©2002.
Description:	1 online resource (xvi, 240 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Freedom of speech -- United States -- History. Freedom of speech. United States. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11168306

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ISBN:	9780814768631 0814768636 0814768636 0814766951 9780814766958
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-230) and index. Print version record.
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: Passavant, Paul. No Escape : Freedom of Speech and the Paradox of Rights. New York : NYU Press, ©2002 9780814766965

Table of Contents:

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; 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; About the Author.

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