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Published in: Society 1/2013

01-02-2013 | 50th Anniversary Issue: Past, Present, Future

Ray Bradbury and the Assault on Free Thought

Author: Daphne Patai

Published in: Society | Issue 1/2013

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“[F]reedom to differ is not limited to things that do not matter much. That would be a mere shadow of freedom. The test of its substance is the right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order.”
Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson, West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943)
“There isn’t any need for a civilized man to bear anything that’s seriously unpleasant.”
Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (1932)
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Literature
Bradbury, R. 1979. Fahrenheit 451. New York: Ballantine Books [orig. pub. 1953].
de Grazia, E. 1992. Girls Lean Back Everywhere: The Law of Obscenity and the Assault on Genius. New York: Random House.
Kors, A. C., & Silverglate, H. A. 1998. The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty on America’s Campuses. New York: The Free Press.
Lukianoff, G. 2012. Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate. New York: Encounter Books.
Patai, D. 2008. What Price Utopia? Essays on Ideological Policing, Feminism, and Academic Affairs. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield.
Metadata
Title
Ray Bradbury and the Assault on Free Thought
Author
Daphne Patai
Publication date
01-02-2013
Publisher
Springer-Verlag
Published in
Society / Issue 1/2013
Print ISSN: 0147-2011
Electronic ISSN: 1936-4725
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12115-012-9617-x

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