Censorship and Silencing: Practices of Cultural Regulation

Edited by
Robert C. Post
(Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities, 1998)
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Table of Contents

Preface
Censorship and Silencing
Robert C. Post

Part I. Censorship: The Repressive State

• (Un)Censoring in Detail: The Fetish of Censorship in the Early Modern Past and the Postmodern Present
  Richard Burt
• Incitement and the Limits of the Law
  Ruth Gavison
• Policing the Past: Holocaust Denial and the Law
  Lawrence Douglas
• Civility and Censorship in Early Modern England
  Deborah Shuger
• "An Immoderate Taste for Truth": Censoring History in Baudelaire's "Les bijoux"
  E.S. Burt

Part II. Discourse: The Tutelary State

• The Ontology of Censorship
  Frederick Schauer
• Public Funding for Science and Art: Censorship, Social harm, and the Case of Genetic Research into Crime and Violence
  David Wasserman
• The Tutelary State: "Censorship," "Silencing," and the "Practices of Cultural Regulation"
  Sanford Levinson
• Censorship in the Heart of Difference: Cultural Property, Indigenous Peoples' Movements, and Challenges to Western Liberal Thought
  George E. Marcus

Part III. Silencing: The Egalitarian State

• Ruled Out: Vocabularies of the Censor
  Judith Butler
• Subordination, Silence, and Pornography's Authority
  Rae Langton
• Pornographizing, Subordinating, and Silencing
  Leslie Green
• Freedom's Silences
  Wendy Brown

Appendix: Conference Series, 1994-1995