Public Morality and Liberal Society: Essays on Decency, Law, and Pornography

Clor, Harry M.

ISBN 10: 0268038139 / ISBN 13: 9780268038137

Verlag: University of Notre Dame Press, 1996

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The issue of public morality, so often at the center of heated debates about pornography, narcotics, public indecency, violent entertainment, "family values," et cetera, is at once a continuing reality and a persistent dilemma in our liberal society. With Public Morality and Liberal Society, Harry M. Clor makes an important contribution to this perennial and intensely debated theme by considering how public morality can be justified in theory and accommodated in practice within a liberal society. Clor develops his argument in five parts. Chapter 1 provides an overview of the various controversies and ambiguities about public morality in American life and public opinion. In Chapter 2 Clor presents the case for a public standard of morality and defends it against the most persistent objections. Chapter 3 covers some of the themes prominent in recent treatments of the subject of public morality, and Chapter 4 critically analyzes the two theoretically dominant liberal orientations of recent decades, the libertarian and egalitarian views. In Chapter 5 Clor compares the traditional ethical indictment of pornography with the current feminist indictment.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Harry M. Clor is Professor of Political Science at Kenyon College. He is the author of Obscenity and Public Morality: Censorship in a Liberal Society (1969) and many articles and essays in political science.

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Titel: Public Morality and Liberal Society: Essays ...
Verlag: University of Notre Dame Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
Einband: Hardcover
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