Finlayson, L (2014) How to Screw Things with Words. Hypatia, 29 (4). pp. 774-798. DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/hypa.12109
Finlayson, L (2014) How to Screw Things with Words. Hypatia, 29 (4). pp. 774-798. DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/hypa.12109
Finlayson, L (2014) How to Screw Things with Words. Hypatia, 29 (4). pp. 774-798. DOI https://doi.org/10.1111/hypa.12109
Abstract
Since its influential rendering by Rae Langton in her 1993 paper, “Speech Acts and Unspeakable Acts,” the “silencing argument” against pornography has become the subject of a lively debate that continues to this day. My intention in this paper is not to join in the existing debate, but to give a critical overview of it. In its current form, I suggest, it is going nowhere (and has been en route for too long already). Yet the silencing argument, I believe, nevertheless contains an indispensable insight—and more radical potential than is usually acknowledged either by its defenders or its opponents. I argue that in order to preserve this insight and unleash its potential, we should begin by adopting the following motto: MacKinnon, not Austin!
Item Type: | Article |
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) |
Divisions: | Faculty of Arts and Humanities Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Philosophical, Historical and Interdisciplinary Studies, School of |
SWORD Depositor: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Depositing User: | Unnamed user with email elements@essex.ac.uk |
Date Deposited: | 09 Aug 2016 15:52 |
Last Modified: | 30 Oct 2024 16:54 |
URI: | http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/17395 |
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