Pornography's Many Meanings
A Reply to C.M. Concepcion
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12147303 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alisa L Carse (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 101-111 |
| Publication date | 1999-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Hypatia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0887-5367 • E-ISSN: 1527-2001 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1527-2001.1999.tb01042.x |
| OpenAlex | W1993730410 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 6 |
C.M. Concepcion's review of “Pornography: An Uncivil Liberty?” (Carse 1995) fundamentally misconstrues the position defended in that article. This paper examines possible sources of this misconstrual, focusing critical attention on the narrowly crafted, morally loaded notion of “pornography” that figures centrally in the original argument under review. Pornography is not a category of speech that can be characterized as having one crucial meaning or message, nor is the message of pornography easily identifiable in instances of pornographic speech. This raises the problem of interpretive privilege, which haunts many of the antipornography arguments being offered in the contemporary debate, including the author's own earlier argument
Aesthetics · Argument (complex analysis · Epistemology · Meaning (existential · Political science · Pornography · Privilege (computing · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection · Law · Law in Society and Culture · Philosophy · Psychology · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
| Citations per year | 0.14 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |