Critiquing Free Speech

This monograph addresses free speech, arguing that, while interdisciplinary approaches can be useful, legal scholars must avoid distorting issues by using vocabularies and tools that do not reflect complexities of 1st Amendment. For scholars in comm, law

Contents: Preface. Introduction. Classical First Amendment Theory. Imperial Paradigms and Reductionism. Stanley Fish, Literary Theory, and Freedom of Expression. First Amendment Theory and Conceptions of the Self. The Public-Private Distinction and the New Realism. The Normative First Amendment. Shall We Commit First Amendment Theory?