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Book SynopsisThe authors have spent their lives in South Africa, are writing this book from and within a very particular context of compounded oppression, marginalisation and otherness. In many ways, apartheid has both damaged and provided us with the emotions and language through which to speak from and about harmful speech. That apartheid managed to succeed in its depravity for as long as it did, begins to provide some hint to the often-underestimated power and debilitation of speech and language. This book, therefore, is not only an interpretation and analysis of what a philosophy of education might have to offer in relation to the debate on free speech. Rather, it is also an attempt to make meaning of lived experiences its encounters, it conflicts and its harms so that this debate is extended beyond conceptual deliberations and into a realm of human and humane dialogue for the sake of seeing and knowing one another. The authors are intent upon understanding the argumentsboth for and against f
Trade ReviewAll those concerned with the meaning and practice of free speech will be interested in this book. The authors discuss the vital importance of the role of universities and their staff and students in establishing and promoting a democratic justice through education. This is a vital topic that must be considered. The authors are not simplistically arguing for constrained or unconstrained free speech. Rather they are “uncovering what conditions ought to prevail to enhance the notion of free speech”. They are concerned with the cultivation of justice within pedagogical encounters. The book is passionately written, engagingly written with incisive academic discussions illustrated by fascinating case studies. The coda by Ronald Barnett is fascinating and extremely valuable. This is an important book. It is essential reading in troubled times. -- Ian Davies, University of York
Table of ContentsChapter 1: On Freedom, Openness and the Ecological University Chapter 2: Free Speech and Its Limitations: Towards Democratic Justice Chapter 3: On Non-technicist Thinking and Risks Chapter 4: Illocutionary and Perlocutionary Speech, Academic Freedom, and Free Speech Chapter 5: On the Fallacy of Regulating Speech Chapter 6: On Free Speech and Openness Chapter 7: Free Speech, Recognition and Democratic Education Reconsidered Chapter 8: Case Studies on Free Speech Chapter 9: A Reconfigured Democratic Education and Free Speech: Going ‘Against an Ebbing Tide’ Chapter 10: Coda (Ron Barnett) About the Authors
