Charlie Hebdo, Free Speech and Counter-Speech

Simon Dawes

Sociological Research Online, 2015, vol. 20, issue 3, 219-226

Abstract: This brief rapid response article considers the French media framing of the Charlie Hebdo attack in terms of ‘Republican values’ such as free speech, and critiques the post-political and moralistic reduction of debate to ‘right and wrong’ arguments, as well as the fetishisation of the right to offend and the depoliticisation of the right to be offended.

Keywords: Charlie Hebdo; Counter-Speech; Free Press; Free Speech; France; Post-Politics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.5153/sro.3765

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