This book illuminates the distinctive character of our modern understanding of the basis and value of free speech by contrasting it with the very different form

Free speech in the ancient democracy was not a protected right but an expression of the freedom from hierarchy, awe, reverence and shame. That freedom was chall

This book contains a collection of essays on the notion of “Free Speech” in classical antiquity. The essays examine such concepts as “freedom of speech,�

Proposes a new democratic theory, rooted in activity not consent, and intrinsically related to historical understandings of power and ethics.

“The best history of free speech ever written and the best defense of free speech ever made.” —P.J. O’Rourke Hailed as the “first freedom,” free spe