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Liberal Democracy and the Limits of Tolerance: Essays in Honor and Memory of Yitzhak Rabin »

Book cover image of Liberal Democracy and the Limits of Tolerance: Essays in Honor and Memory of Yitzhak Rabin by Raphael Cohen-Almagor

Authors: Raphael Cohen-Almagor
ISBN-13: 9780472110162, ISBN-10: 0472110160
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Date Published: May 2000
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Raphael Cohen-Almagor

Book Synopsis

How to prevent the enemies of democracy from using its freedoms to attack its existence

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction1
The Legacy of Yitzhak Rabin24
The Cost of Communicative Tolerance28
Protest and Tolerance: Legal Values and the Control of Public-Order Policing43
Freedom of Speech and Political Violence70
Boundaries of Freedom of Expression before and after Prime Minister Rabin's Assassination79
The Dual Threat to Modern Citizenship: Liberal Indifference and Nonconsensual Violence99
The Paradox of Israeli Civil Disobedience and Political Revolt in Light of the Jewish Tradition114
Should Hate Speech Be Free Speech? John Stuart Mill and the Limits of Tolerance133
Holocaust Denial, Equality, and Harm: Boundaries of Liberty and Tolerance in a Liberal Democracy151
The Regulation of Racist Expression182
Freedom of the Press and Terrorism200
Reporting on Political Extremists in the United States: The Unabomber, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Militias215
Pragmatic Liberalism and the Press in Violent Times232
Protecting Wider Purposes: Hate Speech, Communication, and the International Community251
Riding the Electronic Tiger: Censorship in Global, Distributed Networks275
Contributors295
Index of Court Cases299
Index301

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