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<!table of contents!> Contents Introduction: Hard-Hearted Liberalism The Intellectual Options Today Liberals, Civil Libertarians, and Liberalism The Free Speech Story Self-Abstraction and Stoicism The Method of Perversity Chapter 1. Saint Paul?s Shudder The Puzzle of Paul The Case of Meat at Corinth The Privilege of the Other In Praise of Impersonality Hosting Dangerous Discourse Stoic, Rhetorician, Jew Chapter 2. ?Evil Be Thou My Good?: Milton and Abyss-Redemption Areopagitica, a Misplaced Classic Provoking Objects Scouting into the Regions of Sin Dramatis Personae The Morality of Transgression Chapter 3. Publicity and Pain The Public Realm as Sublimation Locke?s Project of Self-Discipline Adam Smith and the Fortunate Impossibility of Sympathy Mill and the Historical Recession of Pain Stoic Ear, Romantic Voice Publicity and Pain Chapter 4. Homeopathic Machismo in Free Speech Theory The Traumatophilic First Amendment Holmes and Hardness Brandeis and Noxious Doctrine Skokie Subjectivity Hardball Public Space and the Suspended Soul Impersonality, or Openness to Strangeness Chapter 5. Social Science as Public Communication Positivism as Civic Discipline The Arts of Chaste Discourse Democracy and Numbers Objectivity and Self-Mortification Medical Composure Ways to Rehearse Death Chapter 6. ?Watch, Therefore?: Suffering and the Informed Citizen Compassion Courage Pity and Its Critics News and the Everlasting Now Chapter 7. ?Meekness as a Dangerous Activity?: Witnessing as Participation Witnessing with the Body Witnessing from Captivity Persons as Objects Martin Luther King?s Principled Passivity Transcendental Buffoonery Democracy and Imperfection Conclusion: Responsibility to Things That Are Not The Sustainability of Free Expression The Wages of Stoicism Acknowledgments Index
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Freedom of expression -- History.
Good and evil -- History.
Political science -- Philosophy -- History.