Overview
- Includes work from contributors with a variety of disciplinary and political perspectives
- Analyzes FSOI within a variety of context, including US, Canada, the UK, Australia, and Hong Kong
- Provides a broad sense of the major points of FSOI controversy
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism (PASTCL)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Constitutional Foundations and Institutional Protections
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Front Matter
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Contemporary Issues
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book explores controversies surrounding free speech and open inquiry (FSOI) in various regions of the Anglophone world. The authors argue that the past decade has seen a noticeable erosion of FSOI across the globe, aided and abetted by university clerisies and state apparatuses. These groups’ policing of language and pandering to cancel culture, the authors argue, have narrowed the Overton window to the point of reinvigorating the push for blasphemy law within liberal democracies themselves and impeding certain avenues scientific research. While most books on the subject discuss the American constitutional context of the First Amendment, this book considers free speech in the wider context of other Anglo countries. It also includes scholars from a variety of disciplines whose approaches will not only be ideologically distinct, but demonstrate a diversity of disciplinary approaches and concerns.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Luke C. Sheahan is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Duquesne University and a Non-resident Scholar in the Program for Research on Religion and Urban Civil Society (PRRUCS) at the University of Pennsylvania, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: International Comparative Approaches to Free Speech and Open Inquiry (FSOI)
Editors: Luke C. Sheahan
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-12362-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-12361-0Published: 12 October 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-12364-1Published: 13 October 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-12362-7Published: 11 October 2022
Series ISSN: 2662-6470
Series E-ISSN: 2662-6489
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 328
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 5 illustrations in colour
Topics: Comparative Politics, Constitutional Law, Political Science, Political Communication