Table of Contents

1 Liberal Legal Rights and the Grounds of Nationalism 2 John Burgess Is to Woodrow Wilson as Individual Rights Are to Community? Nation, Race, and the Right of Free Speech 3 A Moral Geography of Liberty: John Stuart Mill and American Free Speech Discourse 4 The Landscape of Rights Claiming: The Shift to a Post-Cold War American National Formation 5 Whose First Amendment Is It, Anyway? 6 The Governmentality of Discussion

Promotional Information

No Escape proves that liberal government and nationalism can mutually reinforce each other, taking as its example a preeminent and seemingly universal liberal legal right, freedom of speech, and illustrating how it can function in a way that actually reproduces nationally exclusive conditions of power.

About the Author

Paul A. Passavant is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Hobart and William Smith Colleges.

Reviews

"This is a thought-provoking and well-written book." -- American Political Science Association "Passavant's argument depends on stablising a paradoxical tension between two principles conventionally involved in an adversary relationship." --Journal of American Studies "Passavant challenges the dichotomous approach to the relationship between liberalism and communitarianism. Overall, No Escape offers new insight on the relationship by critcally delving into historical events, sociopolitics, and legal developments. It challenges the conventional wisdom regarding the inherent confloict between expanding liberal rights while embracing communitarian values. Some readers will find considerable value in his judiciously documented and forceful argument." --The law and Politics Book Review