Author:
Tortarolo, Edoardo, 1956-
Imprint:Dordrecht : Springer Science and Business Media, c2016.
Descriptionxxv, 199 p. ; 24 cm.
Note:Introduction: 1. Internalist censorship, externalist censorship 2. Europe and Asia: to what extent were they different?.- Was control inescapable?: 1. Two paradigms 3. The dream of the perfect repression 3. Internal fissures.- The difficult victory of freedom of the press in England: 1. From censorship to freedom of the press 2. From freedom of the press to the principle of self-restraint.- The functional ambiguity of censorship and French Enlightenment: "We live in a country where licence does not prevail" 2. Montesquieu's paradox 3. Practice and theory of the press 3. Devotion to the truth: d'Holbach, Diderot, Voltaire 4. Rousseau: self-censorship 5. Condorcet and the radical commitment to the public interest.- The censors as protectors of freedom of the press: 1. Malesherbes and the self-refashioning of the Librairie 2. The world of the royal censors 3. Attempts at dialogic censorship 4. "Freedom to think and write" and economic progress.- Misunderstandings and new meanings: 1. The "policy of the book" in Europe 2. The end of the paradigm of functional ambiguity and participated freedom.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
