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Author:   Anshuman A. Mondal
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
ISBN:  

9781350470521

ISBN 10:   135047052
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   23 January 2025
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

PREFACE PART ONE: OPENING PART TWO: ‘FREE SPEECH’ The Paradoxes of Liberty The Rhetorical Foundations of Liberalism The trope of infinite and perpetual openness On Persuasion What do they know of freedom who only freedom know? The indistinction of liberty Freedom and foreclosure PART THREE: ANTI-/RACISM Speech/silence/ing Speech and silence: an anti-racist dialectic Racism is/not… How racism does its thing Racism is what racism does What did you say? White/write privilege: Whiteness and the transcendental imagination Racism’s gothic imaginary Why anti-racists don’t need ‘free speech’ Empowerment, not ‘freedom’ PART FOUR: SHAPING A one-dimensional freedom Discursive liquidity: the shaping of discourse PART FIVE: RUMINATIONS What can you say? Coconuts Are you kidding me? The case against no platforming is not an open and shut one Safe spaces On harassment and bullying On statues, memorials and monuments On tolerance The paradox of (counter-)hegemony Paul Gilroy in Finsbury Park PART SIX: CLOSING Some final thoughts on liberalism and anti-racism Bibliography Index

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Essential. A highly engaging read that incisively skewers liberal free speech shibboleths. It is both a primer on liberalism, free speech, racism, philosophy of language and an incisive intervention into contemporary debates. * Dr Anthony Leaker, University of Brighton, UK *

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Anshuman A. Mondal is Professor of Modern Literature at the University of East Anglia. His research focusses on the construction of modern social and political identities, and the cultural politics attendant upon them. His books include Nationalism and Post-colonial Identity: Culture and Ideology in India and Egypt (2003), Amitav Ghosh (2007), and Young British Muslim Voices (2008). Since 2008, he has published extensively on the politics of ‘free speech’ and is the author of Islam and Controversy: The Politics of Free Speech after Rushdie (2014).

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