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The A–Z of Free Expression
(London: Index on Censorship, 2003) includes extracts from writers on
many different aspects of this subject. It also includes Ronald
Dworkin’s essay “A New Map of Censorship”.
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Lisa Appignanesi (ed.), Free
Expression is No Offence (London: Penguin in association
with PEN, 2005) is a very interesting collection of essays by writers
defending free speech, stimulated by proposed laws on religious hatred
in the UK. Contributors include Salman Rushdie, Rowan Atkinson, Philip
Hensher, Philip Pullman,Michael Ignatief, Hanif Kureishi, Adam Smith,
and Helena Kennedy. The book was published in association with PEN,
which is an organization that champions freedom of expression worldwide,
particularly for writers and artists. Further details about PEN are
available from www.englishpen.org.
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Eric Barendt, Freedom of
Speech, 2nd edn. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005).
Written by a professor of media law, this book addresses legal and
constitutional issues, but also draws on political and philosophical
thought. This is probably the most comprehensive treatment of the topic
currently available. It provides a more detailed account of most of the
topics raised in this book (and many others besides), together with a
discussion of the key legal cases.
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Lee C. Bollinger and Geoffrey R. Stone (eds.), Eternally Vigilant: Free Speech in the Modern
Era (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002) is an
excellent anthology on First Amendment issues, and includes essays by
Stanley Fish, Richard A. Posner, Frederick Schauer, Cass R. Sunstein,
and others.
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Alan Haworth, Free Speech
(London: Routledge, 1998) is a wide-ranging philosophical treatment of
free speech.
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John Durham Peters, Courting the
Abyss: Free Speech and the Liberal Tradition (Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 2005) is a recent exploration of the
Anglo-American free speech tradition.
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T. M. Scanlon, The Difficulty of
Tolerance: Essays in Political Philosophy (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2003) includes several important articles on
free speech.
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Frederick Schauer, Free Speech: A
Philosophical Enquiry (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1982) is a clear, well-argued treatment of the topic that is
still relevant to present-day debates.
