Website Search
Find information on spaces, staff, and services.
Catalog Search
Books
Freedom of speech and society : a social approach to freedom of expression
- Author / Creator
- Available as
- Physical
Details
Checking for availability...
- Creator
- Harry Melkonian
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
-
- Amherst, N.Y. : Cambria Press, [2012]
- ©2012
- Physical Details
-
- xxxii, 213 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781604978209, 1604978201
- OCLC
- ocn798093643
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- The nature of speech and freedom of speech -- The sociology of freedom of speech -- The continuing relevance of Durkheim ; the demise of criminal defamation -- The origins of civilisation ; Durkheim v Marx -- Traditional philosophical and legal views : a tour of free speech theory -- Sociology and legal philosophy ; harmony or discord? -- Sociology as legal argument ; the American experience -- Conclusion: the contribution of sociological theory to free speech