Blasphemy: Verbal Offense Against the Sacred, From Moses to Salman Rushdie

by Levy, Leonard W.
ISBN: 9780807845158
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Overview

Leonard Levy traces the varied meanings of blasphemy throughout Western law. He argues that while past sanctions against the crime have inhibited all manner of cultural, political, scientific, and literary expression, we also pay a price for our extraordinary expansion of the scope of permissible speech. We have become, he charges, not only a free society but one that is 'numb' to outrage.

  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Author: Levy, Leonard W.
  • ISBN: 9780807845158
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 9.24 x 1.68
  • Number Of Pages: 704
  • Publication Year: 1995