1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910460928903321

Titolo

The art of veiled speech : self-censorship from Aristophanes to Hobbes / / edited by Han Baltussen and Peter J. Davis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia : , : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

0-8122-9163-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (336 p.)

Disciplina

363.31

Soggetti

Classical literature - History and criticism

Politics and literature - History

Freedom of speech in literature - History

Freedom of speech - History

Censorship - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Parrhêsia, free speech, and self-censorship / Han Baltussen and Peter J. Davis -- Self-censorship in Ancient Greek comedy / Andrew Hartwig Chapter -- Parrhêsia and censorship in the polis and the symposium : an exploration of Hyperides Against Philippides 3 / Lara O'Sullivan -- A bark worse than his bite? Diogenes the cynic and the politics of tolerance in Athens / Han Baltussen -- Censorship for the Roman stage? / Gesine Manuwald -- The poet as prince : author and authority under Augustus / Ioannis Ziogas -- "Quae quis fugit damnat" : outspoken silence in Seneca's epistles / Marcus Wilson -- Argo's Flavian politics : the workings of Power in Valerius Flaccus / Peter J. Davis -- Compulsory freedom : literature in Trajan's Rome / John Penwill -- Christian correspondences : the secrets of letter-writers and letter-bearers / Pauline Allen -- "Silence Is also annulment" : veiled and unveiled speech in seventh-century martyr commemorations / Bronwen Neil -- "Dixit quod nunquam vidit hereticos" : dissimulation and self-censorship in thirteenth-century Inquisitorial testimonies / Megan Cassidy-Welch -- Inquisition, art, and self-censorship in the early



modern Spanish church, 1563-1834 / François Soyer -- Thomas Hobbes and the problem of self-censorship / Jonathan Parkin.

Sommario/riassunto

Throughout Western history, there have been those who felt compelled to share a dissenting opinion on public matters, while still hoping to avoid the social, political, and even criminal consequences for exercising free speech. In this collection of fourteen original essays, editors Han Baltussen and Peter J. Davis trace the roots of censorship far beyond its supposed origins in early modern history.Beginning with the ancient Greek concept of parrhêsia, and its Roman equivalent libertas, the contributors to The Art of Veiled Speech examine lesser-known texts from historical periods, some famous for setting the benchmark for free speech, such as fifth-century Athens and republican Rome, and others for censorship, such as early imperial and late antique Rome. Medieval attempts to suppress heresy, the Spanish Inquisition, and the writings of Thomas Hobbes during the Reformation are among the examples chosen to illustrate an explicit link of cultural censorship across time, casting new light on a range of issues: Which circumstances and limits on free speech were in play? What did it mean for someone to "speak up" or "speak truth to authority"?Drawing on poetry, history, drama, and moral and political philosophy the volume demonstrates the many ways that writers over the last 2500 years have used wordplay, innuendo, and other forms of veiled speech to conceal their subversive views, anticipating censorship and making efforts to get around it. The Art of Veiled Speech offers new insights into the ingenious methods of self-censorship to express controversial views, revealing that the human voice cannot be easily silenced.Contributors: Pauline Allen, Han Baltussen, Megan Cassidy-Welch, Peter J. Davis, Andrew Hartwig, Gesine Manuwald, Bronwen Neil, Lara O'Sullivan, Jon Parkin, John Penwill, François Soyer, Marcus Wilson, Ioannis Ziogas.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910136792203321

Autore

Marder Michael <1980-, >

Titolo

The Chernobyl herbarium : fragments of an exploded consciousness / / Michael Marder; with artworks by Anaïs Toudeur

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Open Humanities Press, 2016

London : , : Open Humanities Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-78542-027-5

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (73 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Critical climate change

Disciplina

179.2

Soggetti

Plants (Philosophy)

Environmental ethics

Chernobyl Nuclear Accident, Chornobylʹ, Ukraine, 1986

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Sommario/riassunto

We entrust readers with thirty fragments of reflections, meditations, recollections, and images — one for each year that has passed since the explosion that rocked and destroyed a part of the Chernobyl nuclear power station in April 1986. The aesthetic visions, thoughts, and experiences that have made their way into this book hover in a grey region between the singular and self-enclosed, on the one hand, and the generally applicable and universal, on the other. Through words and images, we wish to contribute our humble share to a collaborative grappling with the event of Chernobyl. Unthinkable and unrepresentable as it is, we insist on the need to reflect upon, signify, and symbolize it, taking stock of the consciousness it fragmented and, perhaps, cultivating another, more environmentally attuned way of living.