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Taking Offence
Casper Melville
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Description for Taking Offence
Hardcover. Attempts to disentangle the varieties of offence, to trace the origins of our 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. Num Pages: 112 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JPVH2. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 185 x 114 x 14. Weight in Grams: 176.
From plays to cartoons, books to Teddy Bears-interest 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 ... Read more
From plays to cartoons, books to Teddy Bears-interest 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
112
Condition
New
Number of Pages
112
Place of Publication
Greenford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781906497026
SKU
V9781906497026
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About Casper Melville
Caspar Melville has been editor of New Humanist magazine since 2005. He formerly worked as executive editor for the online magazine openDemocracy. He has a PhD in Media and Communications from Goldsmith's College, London, where he also taught. He has contributed to several academic books and his journalism has appeared in The LA Times, Toronto Star, Sunday Telegraph, Village Voice, ... Read more
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