The Aesthetics of Free Speech: Rethinking the Public Sphere
Author:   J. Roberts
Publisher:   Palgrave USA
Edition:   2003 ed.
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9781403905666


Pages:   277
Publication Date:   09 December 2003
Format:   Hardback
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The Aesthetics of Free Speech: Rethinking the Public Sphere is one of the first books to theoretically explore the relationship between free speech and the public sphere. By drawing upon Marxist theory the author, John Michael Roberts, demonstrates how liberal theorists frequently construct an abstract aesthetic of 'rational', 'cultivated' and 'competent' discussion which then serves as a norm through which certain utterances can be humiliated and excluded from participating fully within the public sphere. However, the author also shows how excluded utterances develop their own aesthetic of free speech and how this aesthetic then comes back to haunt the bourgeois public sphere.

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Author:   J. Roberts
Publisher:   Palgrave USA
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   2003 ed.
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.490kg
ISBN:  

9781403905666


ISBN 10:   1403905665
Pages:   277
Publication Date:   09 December 2003
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Acknowledgements Introduction: Digging and Levelling the Capitalist Public Sphere Abstracting Dialogue Consummating Aesthetics John Stuart Mill and the Search for a State of Cultivation Jürgen Habermas and the Search for a State of Competency The Capitalist Form of the Public Sphere The Intuitive Form of Free Speech in the Bourgeois and Proletarian Public Spheres The State of Free Speech Notes References Index

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JOHN MICHAEL ROBERTS is Lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds. He is co-editor of Critical Realism and Marxism (2001), Realism, Discourse and Deconstruction (2003) and After Habermas: New Perspectives on the Public Sphere (forthcoming, 2004).

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