Freedom of Expression and Human Rights: Historical, Literary and Political Contexts

Freedom of Expression and Human Rights provides a critical and contentious overview of the fundamental relationship between writing and political dissent from early Greek democracy to post-Enlightenment forms of totalitarianism-such as Communism, Fascism, and Nazism-and through to modern forms of liberal democracy based upon universal human rights encapsulated by the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Complementing such historical contexts, this book explores the range of predominantly …