Taking Offence
Melville, Caspar
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BOOK SYNOPSIS
From plays to cartoons, books to Teddy Bearsinterest groups, often using the language of human rights, are claiming that they are offended and attempting to ban, gag, even kill, those deemed to be the offenders. Intellectual heavyweights throughout the Anglo-American world of letters have charged to the defence of free expression. There have been many highly charged incidents, in particular around Islam, offering opportunities for an orgy of media self-congratulation about the superiority of secular democracy and the vital role of the press in supporting freedom. Using his experience as editor of New Humanist (itself accused of 'offensiveness'), Melville tries to disentangle the varieties of offence, to trace the origins of our current situation to the failed identity politics of the 1970s and the new language of human rights, and to distinguish between the duty to offend and the temptations of cultural chauvinism.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
In the Wake of 9/11The Free Society: My Part in its DownfallInstitutionalizing Thin SkinA Clash of PietiesMulticulturalism: Empowering IslamA Media Manifesto
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 1906497028
ISBN(13-digit): 9781906497026
Dewey Decimal: 363
Book Publisher: Univ of Chicago Pr
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 96
