Notes on contributors

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Front matter i
2. Contents v
3. Notes on contributors vii
4. Acknowledgements x
5. Abbreviations xi
6. 1 Freedom of speech in England and the anglophone world,1500–1850 1
7. 2 Thomas Elyot on counsel, kairos and freeing speech in Tudor England 28
8. 3 Pearls before swine 47
9. 4 ‘Free speech’ in Elizabethan and early Stuart England 63
10. 5 The origins of the concept of freedom of the press 98
11. 6 Swift and free speech 119
12. 7 Defending the truth 135
13. 8 ‘The warr … against heaven by blasphemors and infidels’ 151
14. 9 David Hume and ‘Of the Liberty of the Press’ (1741) in its original contexts 171
15. 10 The argument for the freedom of speech and press during the ratification of the US Constitution, 1787–88 192
16. 11 Before – and beyond – On Liberty 211
17. 12 Unfree, unequal, unempirical 236
18. Index 257