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John Michael Roberts: The Aesthetics of Free Speech: Rethinking the Public Sphere.(Book Review)
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Capital & Class
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March 22, 2006
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John Michael Roberts The Aesthetics of Free Speech: Rethinking the Public Sphere. Palgrave Macmillan, 2003, 288 pp. ISBN 1-403-90566-5 (hbk) 52.50 [pounds sterling]
This is a book about people speaking to one another in public spaces. In particular, it is about the ways in which people speak to one another politically: how they speak about rights, liberties and freedoms. The book therefore isolates one form of freedom, namely free speech, as one of the determining moments of the capitalist public sphere. At the same time, however, the book also aims to identify and examine a judgemental aesthetic about what counts as 'good' or 'reasonable' discussion, therefore appropriate ...
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