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- Offers a robust, comprehensive defense of freedom of expression
- Supports freedom of expression with appeals to diverse overlapping and reinforcing considerations
- Defends an “ecology of expression” rather than focusing narrowly on individual self-expression
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This book advances a comprehensive moral defense of freedom of expression—one with implications for law and policy, but also for the choices of individuals and non-governmental institutions. Gary Chartier seeks to ground expressive freedom in mutually supportive concerns related to themes including property, autonomy, flourishing, and discovery, while seeking to tightly cabin the range of potential injuries that might trigger legal liability for expressive activity. Chartier argues suggestively for an understanding of expressive freedom as rooted and realized in a complex set of social ecosystems that merit protection on multiple grounds and applies it provocatively to a range of contemporary issues.
Reviews
“Professor Chartier has crafted a wildly diverse philosophical defense of a robust free expression. Drawing on liberalism, natural law, anarchism, and libertarianism, he describes a societal ecosystem that would foster expressive freedom in multiple ways. A challenging and provocative read.” (Stephen Feldman, University of Wyoming, USA)
“Chartier’s book stakes out a theoretical position which, while presupposed in much contemporary political rhetoric on the topic of free speech, merits the kind of thoughtful articulation Chartier has offered. It is original, rigorous, and extremely topical! Chartier rightly understands that there is a moral issue independent of the legal issues as to whether people should seek to silence others at all. The book’s organization and the quality of the writing and scholarship are exceptional. This volume has the potential to prove a classic contribution to liberal political theory.” (R. Kevin Hill, Portland State University, USA)Authors and Affiliations
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Tom and Vi Zapara School of Business, La Sierra University, Riverside, USA
Gary Chartier
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: An Ecological Theory of Free Expression
Authors: Gary Chartier
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-75271-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-75270-9Published: 20 March 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09187-3Published: 02 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-75271-6Published: 10 March 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 149
Topics: Political Philosophy, Political Theory, Religion and Society