Obscenity and the Limits of Liberalism /  
edited by Loren Glass and Charles Francis Williams. 
 - 1 online resource (224 pages). 
 - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
<br/><br/> Beyond liberalism? /  The obscene in everyday life /  Defending the F-word : Freedom! /  "Guessing oneself into jail" : Morris Ernst and the assault on American obscenity law in the 1930s /  Sex/body/self : a performance and rant for the obscenity conference /  Forging hetero-collectives : obscenity law in India /  "I'm offended" /  Pecunia olet : affluence, effluence, and obscenity /  Preludes to a theory of obscenity /  Loren Glass and Charles Francis Williams --  Michael Taussig --  Nadine Strossen --  Brett Gary --  Tim Miller --  Jyoti Puri --  Laura Kipnis --  Mikita Brottman and David Sterritt --  John Durham Peters. 
<br/><br/> Open Access 
<br/><br/> "Over the course of the nineteenth century in both Europe and the United States, the state usurped the traditional authority of the church in regulating sexual expression and behavior. In the same century philosophers of classical liberalism identified that state function as a threat to individual liberty. Since then, liberalism has provided the framework for debates over obscenity around the globe. But liberalism has recently been under siege, on the one side from postmodern thinkers skeptical about its andro- and ethnocentric assumptions, and on the other side from religious thinkers doubtful of the moral integrity of the Enlightenment project writ large. The principal challenge for those who conduct academic work in this realm is to formulate new models of research and analysis appropriate to understanding and evaluating speech in the present-day public sphere. Toward those ends, Obscenity and the Limits of Liberalism contains a selection of essays and interventions by prominent authors and artists in a variety of disciplines and media. These writings, taken as a whole, put recent developments into historical and global contexts and chart possible futures for a debate that promises to persist well into the new millennium"--Publisher's description. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780814270707 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Obscenity (Law)<br/>Liberalism.<br/>Freedom of expression.<br/>Liberte d'expression.<br/>Liberalisme--Histoire.<br/>Liberalism--History.<br/>Freedom of expression.<br/>Obscenity (Law)
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Discours et echanges.<br/>Essais.<br/>Discursive works.<br/>Essays.<br/>History.<br/>Discursive works.<br/>Essays.<br/>essays.<br/>Essay<br/>Electronic books.