The Irony of Free Speech

by Owen M. Fiss

Book Overview

How free is the speech of someone who can't be heard? Not very - and this, Owen Fiss suggests, is where the First Amendment comes in. In this book, Fiss reframes the debate over free speech to reflect the First Amendment's role in ensuring public debate that is, in Justice William Brennan's words, truly uninhibited, robust and wide-open.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674466608
• ISBN13: 9780674466609
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 98 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.3"