Blasphemy: verbal offense against the sacred, from moses to salman rushdie
Auteur :
Levy, Leonard W.
Éditeur :
The University of North Carolina Press
ISBN :
9780807845158
Date de publication :
28 févr. 1995
Dimensions :
23,4 x 15,6 x 4,2 cm
Poids :
1168 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
Traces the varied meanings of blasphemy throughout Western law. Leonard Levy argues that while past sanctions against the crime have inhibited all manner of cultural, political, scientific, and literary expression, we also pay a price for our extraordinary expansion of the scope of permissible speech. We have become, he charges, not only a free society but one that is “numb†to outrage.