Courting the Abyss: Free Speech and the Liberal Tradition

Courting the Abyss updates the philosophy of free expression for a very different world than the one in which it originated. The notion that a society should allow Klausmen, neo-Nazis, and other violent extremists to freely spread their doctrines has increasingly come under five. Courting the Abyss revisits the tangled history of free speech-providing examples from such wide-ranging sources as the prose and poetry of John Milton, the political and philosophical theory of John Locke, Adam Sm...