Preface

Acknowledgments

Censorship and Silencing

Robert C. Post

Part I: Censorship: The Repressive State

(Un)Censoring in Detail: The Fetish of Censorship in the Early Modern Past and the Postmodern Present

Richard Burt

Incitement and the Limits of Law

Ruth Gavison

Policing the Past: Holocaust Denial and the Law

Lawrence Douglas

Civility and Censorship in Early Modern England

Debora Shuger

"An Immoderate Taste for Truth": Censoring History in Baudelaire's "Les bijoux"

E.S. Burt

Part II: Discourse: The Tutelary State

The Ontology of Censorship

Frederick Schauer

Public Funding for Science and Art: Censorship, Social Harm, and the Case of Genetic Research into Crime and Violence

David Wasserman

The Tutelary State: "Censorship," "Silencing," and the "Practices of Cultural Regulation"

Sanford Levinson

Censorship in the Heart of Difference: Cultural Property, Indigenous Peoples' Movements, and Challenges to Western Liberal Thought

George E. Marcus

Part III: Silencing: The Egalitarian State

Ruled Out: Vocabularies of the Censor

Judith Butler

Subordination, Silence, and Pornography's Authority

Rae Langton

Pornographizing, Subordinating, and Silencing

Leslie Green

Freedom's Silences

Wendy Brown

Appendix: Conference Series, 1994-1995

Biographical Notes on the Authors

Index