On Book Banning (eBook)

Or, How the New Censorship Consensus Trivializes Art and Undermines Democracy

Ira Wells (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
184 Seiten
Biblioasis (Verlag)
978-1-77196-664-1 (ISBN)

Infos

The freedom to read is under attack.From the destruction of libraries in ancient Rome to todays state-sponsored efforts to suppress LGBTQ+ literature, book bans arise from the impulse toward social control. In a survey of legal cases, literary controversies, and philosophical arguments, Ira Wells illustrates the historical opposition to the freedom to read and argues that todays conservatives and progressives alike are warping our childrens relationship with literature and teaching them that the solution to opposing viewpoints is outright expurgation. At a moment in which our democratic institutions are buckling under the stress of polarization, On Book Banning is both rallying cry and guide to resistance for those who will always insist upon reading for themselves.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.2.2025
• Reihe/Serie: Field Notes
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Freizeit / Hobby ► Sammeln / Sammlerkataloge
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: book burning • cancel culture • Censorship • freedom to read • Free Speech • Homophobia • intellectual freedom • libraries • Racism • Transphobia
• ISBN-10: 1-77196-664-5 / 1771966645
• ISBN-13: 978-1-77196-664-1 / 9781771966641