Obscenity and the Limits of Liberalism

by Loren Glass

Over the course of the nineteenth century in both Europe and the United States, the state usurped the traditional authority of the church in regulating sexual expression and behavior. In the same century philosophers of classical liberalism identified that state function as a threat to individual liberty. Since then, liberalism has provided the framework for debates over obscenity around the globe.

But liberalism has recently been under siege,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814211720
• ISBN13: 9780814211724
• Release Date: November 2011
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.2"