The Rushdie Fatwa and After: A Lesson to the Circumspect - Hardcover

Winston, Brian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1137388595 ISBN 13: 9781137388599

Verlag: AIAA, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

THIS RESOUNDING DEFENCE OF THE PRINCIPLES OF FREE EXPRESSION REVISITS THE SATANIC VERSES UPROAR OF 1989, AS WELL AS SUBSEQUENT INCIDENTS SUCH AS THE DANISH CARTOONS CONTROVERSY, TO ARGUE THAT THE HUMAN RIGHT OF FREE SPEECH IS BY NO MEANS SO SECURE THAT IT CAN BE TAKEN FOR GRANTED.

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"This is not the first account of how the Satanic Verses affair came about, but it is by far the most wide-ranging and best informed. It also includes equally authoritative accounts of numerous subsequent incidents such as the murder of the Dutch film-maker Theo van Gogh and the Danish cartoons controversy, which, it is convincingly argued here, need to be seen as ramifications of the Salman Rushdie case. But this is far more than simply a recital of the facts, richly detailed and highly informative though it most certainly is in this respect. For what we also have here is a resounding defence of the principles of free expression, not in the debased, self-interested and ill-informed manner in which the British press habitually defends its 'right' to do as it damn well pleases, but in highly sophisticated philosophical terms. This is a key contribution to the debate not only on the right to free expression, including the right to offend, but on media freedom in general in the post-Leveson era." - Julian Petley, Brunel University, UK

Reseña del editor:

The freedom to create was rocked by the Imam Khomeini's death sentence on Salman Rushdie 25 years ago. Ever since Khomeini's fatwa called for Rushdie's murder because of what he wrote in his novel The Satanic Verses, the zealous of many faiths have been moved on more than one occasion to protest - often with extreme violence - artistic expression in all its forms. The Rushdie Fatwa and After untangles that original event and the other major attacks on creative freedom it presaged. It argues that our ability to resist this assault has been seriously undermined by Western tolerance. The ripples of the stone the Imam cast that day in 1989 are travelling yet, disturbing the waters of the Western Enlightenment, circles within circles, like the stories of The 1001 Nights. Now Winston presents this sorry history as what that book might well call 'a lesson to the circumspect'.

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• Verlag: AIAA
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1137388595
• ISBN 13: 9781137388599
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 184