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Eid und Fluch stellten über die Jahrhunderte hinweg die bedeutendsten Formen dar, soziale Wirklichkeit verbindlich zu gestalten: Herrschaft und Gefolgschaft, Treue und Versprechen, Gerechtigkeit und Recht gründeten seit Menschengedenken auf rituellen Inszenierungen des Sprechens. Fatal werden diese Sprachen, wenn sie sich auf einen sakralen Dritten berufen und gegen die Wortbrüchigen die Gewalt Gottes oder übernatürlicher Mächte mobilisieren. Die Beiträge dieses Bandes beleuchten aus juristischer, historischer und literaturwissenschaftlicher Sicht die Geschichte dieses schicksalsmächtigen Sprechens: Von der hethitischen Kultur und der europäischen Antike über das Mittelalter bis hin zum Versuch der Aufklärung, die sakralen Sprachkräfte zu bannen. Den Endpunkt bildet Nietzsches Projekt an der Schwelle zum 20. Jahrhundert, die moralischen Bindungskräfte des Sprechens selbst zu verfluchen.

Blasphemy in literature. --- Swearing in literature. --- Libel and slander --- History.

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Libel and slander --- Freedom of speech --- Conflict of laws --- Judgments, Foreign --- Torts

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A fundamental precept of all liberal democracies is a commitment to free speech. However, democracies differ fundamentally when addressing the constitutionality of laws regulating certain kinds of speech. In the United States, the commitment to free speech in the First Amendment has been held by the Supreme Court to protect the public expression of the most noxious racist ideology and hence to render unconstitutional even narrow restrictions on hate speech. In contrast, governments have been accorded considerable leeway to restrict racist and other extreme expression in almost every other democracy, including Canada, the United Kingdom and other European countries. This book considers the constitutionality of hate speech regulation, and examines how liberal democracies have adopted fundamental differences in the way they respond to racist or extreme expressions. What accounts for the marked differences in attitude towards the constitutionality of hate speech regulation? Does hate speech regulation violate the core free speech principle constitutive of democracy? Has the traditional US position on extreme expressions justifiably not found favour elsewhere? Should, or could, other values such as the commitment to equality or dignity legitimately override the right to free speech in some circumstances? This collection of papers from some of the top free speech thinkers and writers today attempts to analyse and answer some of these fundamental questions that confront liberal democracies faced with extreme expressions.

Freedom of speech --- Hate speech --- Freedom of speech. --- Hate speech. --- Defamation against groups --- Group defamation --- Group libel --- Racist speech --- Speech, Hate --- Libel and slander --- Free speech --- Liberty of speech --- Speech, Freedom of --- Civil rights --- Freedom of expression --- Assembly, Right of --- Freedom of information --- Intellectual freedom --- Law and legislation

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Offensive street speech--racist and sexist remarks that can make its targets feel both psychologically and physically threatened--is surprisingly common in our society. Many argue that this speech is so detestable that it should be banned under law. But is this an area covered by the First Amendment right to free speech? Or should it be banned? In this elegantly written book, Laura Beth Nielsen pursues the answers by probing the legal consciousness of ordinary citizens. Using a combination of field observations and in-depth, semistructured interviews, she surveys one hundred men and women, some of whom are routine targets of offensive speech, about how such speech affects their lives. Drawing on these interviews as well as an interdisciplinary body of scholarship, Nielsen argues that racist and sexist speech creates, reproduces, and reinforces existing systems of hierarchy in public places. The law works to normalize and justify offensive public interactions, she concludes, offering, in essence, a "license to harass." Nielsen relates the results of her interviews to statistical surveys that measure the impact of offensive speech on the public. Rather than arguing whether law is the appropriate remedy for offensive speech, she allows that the benefits to democracy, to community, and to society of allowing such speech may very well outweigh the burdens imposed. Nonetheless, these burdens, and the stories of the people who bear them, should not remain invisible and outside the debate.

Public spaces --- Threats --- Libel and slander --- Hate speech --- Freedom of speech --- Social conflict --- Extortion --- Public places --- Social areas --- Urban public spaces --- Urban spaces --- Cities and towns --- Free speech --- Liberty of speech --- Speech, Freedom of --- Civil rights --- Freedom of expression --- Assembly, Right of --- Freedom of information --- Intellectual freedom --- Law and legislation --- Social aspects

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The Last Day, the Last Hour reconstructs the events - military and legal - that led to the trial and the trial itself, one of the most sensational courtroom battles in Canadian history, involving many prominent legal, military and political figures of the 1920s.

Trials (Libel) --- Mons, 2nd Battle of, Mons, Belgium, 1918. --- Libel and slander --- World War, 1914-1918 --- Campaigns --- Currie, Arthur, --- Currie, Arthur W. --- Curry, Arthur William, --- Canada. --- Belgium --- Mons (Hainaut, Belgique) --- Histoire --- Canada (Province) --- Canadae --- Ceanada --- Chanada --- Chanadey --- Dominio del Canadá --- Dominion of Canada --- Jianada --- Kʻaenada --- Kaineḍā --- Kanada --- Ḳanadah --- Kanadaja --- Kanadas --- Ḳanade --- Kanado --- Kanakā --- Province of Canada --- Republica de Canadá --- Yn Chanadey