{"title": "Censorship in Canadian literature", "covers": [4303569], "subject_places": ["Canada"], "subjects": ["Canadian fiction", "Censorship", "Censorship in literature", "History and criticism", "LITERARY CRITICISM", "Canadian", "Censure", "General", "Censure dans la litt\u00e9rature", "American", "Canadian fiction, history and criticism", "Canadian fiction (English)", "Roman canadien-anglais", "Histoire et critique"], "key": "/works/OL6017804W", "authors": [{"type": {"key": "/type/author_role"}, "author": {"key": "/authors/OL1510249A"}}], "subject_times": ["20th century"], "type": {"key": "/type/work"}, "description": {"type": "/type/text", "value": "\"Mark Cohen's re-definition of censorship as essentially a practice of judgment moves beyond the traditional Enlightenment view of censorship as an oppressive government practice and the consequent liberal condemnation of censorship on principle.\n\nSince judgment is enmeshed in the fabric of human endeavour, censorship is inevitable; since censorship is inevitable, Cohen concludes, debate over whether censorship itself is desirable should give way to a search for censorship practices that are more just.\"--BOOK JACKET."}, "latest_revision": 6, "revision": 6, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2009-12-10T18:23:00.211689"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2023-11-14T15:04:25.215709"}}