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