Cencorship
Censorship in Western Culture university subject.
Essay titles for Essay.
(1) ‘Censorship by definition always proceeds from the empirical assumptions advanced on its behalf by Plato more than two thousand years ago: art can corrupt; it can frighten children and disrupt authority’? (Foulkes) Discuss this assertion with reference to several cases.
(2) ‘To be for or against censorship as such is to assume a freedom no one has. Censorship is. One can only discriminate among its more or less repressive effects.’ (Holquist) Discuss.
(3) How relevant are Freud’s notions of taboo to the debates over censorship?
(4) Examine the contention that ‘policing the mind rather than its product’ is the ultimate goal of censorship.
(5) How effective are strategies designed to obviate censorship? Discuss with reference to at least two such strategies.
(6) Can the Czech mediaeval religious reformer Jan Hus be regarded as an early example of intellectual dissidence and a proponent of pluralism in thinking? Discuss.ed plagiarism. Quoting a source is fine when necessary, but sources MUST be cited.