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Politics 238: Censorship and Toleration LIBRARY RESOURCES
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Course description

Commitments to tolerance and free expression are defining characteristics of modern politics but they emerged from past conflicts and disputes and continue to present political dilemmas today. This course considers historical and theoretical aspects of toleration and intolerance, and particularly their relationship to public political debate, to censorship, and to concepts such as liberty and rights. The course proceeds from a conceptual exploration to the examination of historical episodes including the Reformation and Enlightenment and thinkers such as John Locke and J.S. Mill. This is followed by consideration of modern developments and debates on the limits of expression and action - how free is free speech, what cannot be tolerated, and is 'mere' tolerance enough in a world of diversity?

Core reading

The essential readings for this course are in the Course reader.

The following core readings are also available as e-books.

Scanlon, T. M. "The Difficulty of Tolerance." In Toleration: An Elusive Virtue, edited by David Heyd, 226-39.

Walzer, Michael. "Introduction: How to Write About Toleration." In On Toleration. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.

General

The idea of toleration

Berlin, I. “Two Concepts of Liberty.” In Four Essays on Liberty. London: Oxford University Press, 1969. This essay also appears in Liberty, edited by David Miller. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1991.

Devlin, Patrick. The Enforcement of Morals. London: Oxford University Press, 1965.

Feinberg, Joel. The Moral Limits of the Criminal Law. Vol. 2. Offence to Others. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

Fotion, Nick, and Gerard Elfstrom. Toleration. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1992.

Galeotti, Anna Elisabetta. Toleration as Recognition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Heyd, David, ed. Toleration: An Elusive Virtue. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1996.

Horton, John, and Susan Mendus, eds. Toleration, Identity and Difference. London: Macmillan, 1999.

King, Preston. Toleration. London: Frank Cass, 1998.

Macedo, S. "Toleration and Fundamentalism." In A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy, edited by Robert E. Goodin and Philip Pettit, 622-628. Oxford: Blackwell, 1993.

MacIntyre, Aladair. "Toleration and the Goods of Conflict." In The Politics of Toleration: Tolerance and Intolerance in Modern Life, edited by Susan Mendus. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1989.

McKinnon, Catrionia, and Dario Castiglione, eds. The Culture of Toleration in Diverse Societies: Reasonable Toleration. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2003.

Marcuse, H. "Repressive Tolerance." A Critique of Pure Tolerance, by Robert Paul Wolff, Barrington Moore Jr. and Herbert Marcuse. London: Cape, 1969.

Mendus, Susan. Toleration and the Limits of Liberalism. Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1989.

Mendus, Susan, ed. Justifying Toleration: Conceptual and Historical Perspectives. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Mendus, Susan, ed. The Politics of Toleration: Tolerance and Intolerance in Modern Life. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1999.

Nagel, Thomas. "Toleration." Chap. 14 in Equality and Partiality. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.

---. "Moral Conflict and Political Legitimacy." In Public Reason, edited by Fred D'Agostino and Gerald F. Gaus. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998.

Oberdiek, Hans. Tolerance: Between Forbearance and Acceptance. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001.

Rawls, John. Political Liberalism. New York: Columbia University Press, 1993.

Raz, Joseph. The Morality of Freedom. Oxford: Clarendon, 1986. Especially chap. 15.

Scanlon, T. M. The Difficulty of Tolerance: Essays in Political Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Waldron, J. Liberal Rights: Collected Papers, 1981-1991. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Walzer, Michael. On Toleration. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1997.

Williams, B. "Toleration: An Impossible Virtue." Toleration: An Elusive Virtue, edited by David Heyd. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996.

---. "Tolerating the Intolerable." In The Politics of Toleration: Tolerance and Intolerance in Modern Life, edited by Susan Mendus. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1999.

Wolff, Robert Paul. "Beyond Tolerance." A Critique of Pure Tolerance, Robert Paul Wolff, Barrington Moore Jr. and Herbert Marcuse. London: Cape, 1969.

Idea of free expression

Amey, Lawrence, ed. Censorship. Pasadena, Calif.: Salem Press, 1997.

Barendt, Eric. Freedom of Speech. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985.

Bollinger, Lee C., and Geoffrey R. Stone, eds. Eternally Vigilant: Free Speech in the Modern Era. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.

Bracken, Harry M. Freedom of Speech: Words Are Not Deeds. Westport, Conn.: Praeger, 1994.

Campbell, Tom, and Wojciech Sadurski, eds. Freedom of Communication. Aldershot, Hants.: Dartmouth, 1994.

Cloonan, Martin, and Reebee Garofalo, eds. Policing Pop. Philadelphia; Temple University Press, 2003.

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael. Speech, Media and Ethics, the Limits of Free Expression: Critical Studies on Freedom of Expression, Freedom of the Press and the Public's Right to Know. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2001.

Cohen, Joshua. "Freedom of Expression." In Toleration: an Elusive Virtue, edited by David Heyd. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1996

Dworkin, Ronald. "Why Must Speech Be Free?" Chap. 8 in Freedom's Law: The Moral Reading of the American Constitution. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1996.

---. A Matter of Principle. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986. Pt 6, ‘Censorship and a Free Press’.

---. "A New Map of Censorship." Index On Censorship 1 (1994): 9-15.

Fish, Stanley. There's No Such Thing as Free Speech, and it's a Good Thing, Too. New York: Oxford University Press, 1994.

Fiss, Owen M. Liberalism Divided: Freedom of Speech and the Many Uses of State Power. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1996.

Green, Jonathon, and Nicholas J. Karolides, eds. The Encyclopedia of Censorship. Rev. ed. New York: Facts on File, 2005.

Greenawalt, Kent. "Free Speech Justifications." Columbia Law Review 89 (1989): 119-155.

Haworth, Alan. Free Speech. London: Routledge, 1998.

Jansen, Sue Curry. Censorship: The Knot that Binds Power and Knowledge. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.

Keane, John. The Media and Democracy. Cambridge: Polity, 1991.

Lichtenberg, Judith, ed. Democracy and the Mass Media: A Collection of Essays. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Nerone, John C., ed. Last Rights: Revisiting Four Theories of the Press. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1995.

O'Malley, Tom, and Clive Soley. Regulating the Press. London: Pluto, 2000.

O'Neill, O. "Practices of Toleration." In Democracy and the Mass Media: A Collection of Essays, edited by Judith Lichtenberg. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990.

Raz, J. "Free Expression and Personal Identification." In Free Expression: Essays in Law and Philosophy, edited by W. J. Waluchow, 1-30. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1994.

Scanlon, T. "Freedom of Expression and Categories of Expression." In Readings in Social and Political Philosophy, edited by Robert M. Stewart. 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Schauer, Frederick. Free Speech: a Philosophical Enquiry. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.

Smolla, Rodney A. Free Speech in an Open Society. New York: Vintage, 1993.

Splichal, Slavko. Principles of Publicity and Press Freedom. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2002.

Sunstein, Cass R. Democracy and the Problem of Free Speech. New York: Free Press, 1993.

---. Why Societies Need Dissent. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003.

Thompson, Kenneth. Media and Cultural Regulation. Milton Keynes: Sage, 1997.

Williams, Bernard. Truth and Truthfulness: An Essay in Genealogy. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2002. Chap 9.

Williams, Louise,. and Roland Rich, eds. Losing Control: Freedom of the Press in Asia. Canberra: Asia Pacific Press of the Australian National University, 2000.

Historical - general, collections and reference

Bald, Margaret. Literature Suppressed on Religious Grounds. New York: Facts on File, 1998.

Gearon, Liam. Freedom of Expression and Human Rights: Historical, Literary and Political Contexts. Brighton: Sussex Academic Press, 2006.

Hargreaves, Robert. The First Freedom: A History of Free Speech. Stroud, Glos.: Sutton Publishing, 2002.

Ingelhart, Louis Edward. Press and Speech Freedoms in the World, From Antiquity Until 1998: A Chronology. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1998.

Levy, Leonard W. Blasphemy: Verbal Offense Against the Sacred, From Moses to Salman Rushdie. New York: Knopf, 1993.

---. Emergence of a Free Press. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.

Nederman, Cary J., and John Christian Laursen, eds. Difference and Dissent: Religious Toleration in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 1996.

Remer, Gary. Humanism and the Rhetoric of Toleration. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996.

Reynolds, Noel B., and W. Cole Durham, Jr., eds. Religious Liberty in Western Thought. Atlanta, Ga.: Scholars Press, 1996.

Siebert, Fredrick Seaton. Freedom of the Press in England, 1476-1776: The Rise and Decline of Government Control. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 1952.

Smith, A. "The Long Road to Objectivity and Back Again." In Newspaper History From the Seventeenth Century to the Present Day, edited by George Boyce, James Curran and Pauline Wingate. London: Constable: Sage, 1978.

Thomas, Donald Serrell. A Long Time Burning: The History of Literary Censorship in England. London: Routledge & K. Paul, 1969.

Tierney, B. "Religious Rights: An Historical Perspective." In Religious Human Rights in Global Perspective, edited by John Witte and Johan D. van der Vyver. The Hague: M. Nijhoff, 1996.

Zagorin, Perez. How the Idea of Religious Toleration Came to the West. Princeton University Press, 2003.

Specific topics

Antiquity and Christianity

Aristotle. The Politics, translated by Sir Ernest Barker; revised with an introduction and notes by R.F. Stalley. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Augustine, Saint. Augustine: Political Writings, edited by E.M. Atkins and R.J. Dodaro. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Brickhouse, Thomas C., and Nicholas D. Smith, eds. The Trial and Execution of Socrates: Sources and Controversies. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Brown, Peter. Authority and the Sacred: Aspects of the Christianisation of the Roman World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Drake, H. A. Constantine and the Bishops: the Politics of Intolerance. Baltimore, MD.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.

Evans, G. R. A Brief History of Heresy. Malden, MA.: Blackwell, 2003.

Finley, Moses I. "Censorship in Classical Antiquity." In Democracy Ancient and Modern. 2nd ed. London: Hogarth Press, 1985.

---. Politics in the Ancient World. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.

---. "Socrates and After." In Democracy Ancient and Modern. 2nd ed. London: Hogarth Press, 1985.

Foucault, Michel. Fearless Speech, edited by Joseph Pearson. Los Angeles: Semiotext(e), 2001.

Garnsey, P. "Religious Toleration in Classical Antiquity." In Persecution and Toleration: Papers Read at the Twenty-Second Summer Meeting and the Twenty-Third Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society, edited by W.J. Sheils. Oxford: Blackwell, 1984.

Lambert, Malcolm. Medieval Heresy: Popular Movements from the Gregorian Reform to the Reformation. 3rd ed. Malden, MA.: Blackwell, 2002.

Laursen, John Christian, and C. J. Nederman, eds. Beyond the Persecuting Society: Religious Toleration Before the Enlightenment. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998.

McKechnie, Paul. The First Christian Centuries: Perspectives on the Early Church. Leicester: Inter-Varsity, 2001.

Moore, R. I. The Formation of a Persecuting Society: Power and Deviance in Western Europe, 950-1250. Oxford: Blackwell, 1987.

Oberdiek, Hans. "Thomas Aquinas and John Locke on Toleration." Tolerance: Between Forbearance and Acceptance. Lanham, M.D.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2001.

Plato. The Library holds many translations of the following works.

---. The Laws, translated by Benjamin Jowett.

---. Apology of Socrates, edited with an introduction, translation & commentary by Michael C. Stokes. Warminster: Aris & Phillips, 1997.

---. Crito, translated by Benjamin Jowett.

---. Gorgias, translated by Benjamin Jowett.

---. Phaedrus, translated by Benjamin Jowett.

Popper, Karl. The Open Society and its Enemies. London: Routledge, 2002. Especially chap. 10.

Rahe, Paul A. Republics Ancient and Modern: Classical Republicanism and the American Revolution. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1992 .Chap. 7.

Saxonhouse, A. Free Speech and Democracy in Ancient Athens. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Especially chaps. 1, and 4-5.

Stone, I. F. The Trial of Socrates. Boston: Little, Brown, 1988. Especially chaps. 16-17.

Waite, Gary K. Heresy, Magic, and Witchcraft in Early Modern Europe. Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2003.

Reformation and Counter-Reformation

Cameron, Euan. The European Reformation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991.

Cargill Thompson, W. D. J. The Political Thought of Martin Luther, edited by Philip Broadhead. Brighton, Sussex: Harvester Press, 1984.

Eisenstein, Elizabeth L. The Printing Revolution in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983. Chap. 6.

Elton, G. R., ed. Renaissance and Reformation, 1300-1648. 3rd ed. New York: Macmillan, 1976.

Grell, Ole Peter, and Bob Scribner, eds. Tolerance and Intolerance in the European Reformation. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996.

Hunter. Michael, and David Wootton, eds. Atheism From the Reformation to the Enlightenment. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1992.

Kamen, Henry. The Rise of Toleration. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1967.

King, Preston. "Historical Perspective." Toleration. London: Frank Cass, 1998.

Lecler, Joseph. Toleration and the Reformation, translated by T. L. Westow. New York: Association Press, 1960.

Loades, David. Politics, Censorship, and the English Reformation. London: Pinter Publishers, 1991.

Luther, Martin, and Jean Calvin. Luther and Calvin on Secular Authority, edited and translated by Harro Höpfl. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

O'Day, Rosemary, ed. Culture and Belief in Europe, 1450-1600: An Anthology of Sources. New York: Blackwell, 1990.

Scribner, R. W. The German Reformation. London: Macmillan, 1986.

Skinner, Quentin. The Foundations of Modern Political Thought. Vol. 2, The Age of Reformation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1978. Chap. 8.

Sutherland, N. M. "Persecution and Toleration in Reformation Europe.'' In Persecution and Toleration: Papers Read at the Twenty-Second Summer Meeting and the Twenty-Third Winter Meeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society, edited by W. J. Sheils. Oxford: Blackwell, 1984.

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