Offence

by Klug, Brian

• ISBN13: 9781906497392
• ISBN10: 1906497397
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-08-30
• Publisher: Seagull Books

Summary

Part of an ongoing series published in cooperation with theIndex on Censorshipthat deals with religion and free expression,The Jewish Caseis distinctive in several ways. To begin with, even calling Judaism a religion is problematic. The breadth of Judaism, combined with its antiquity, gives Jewish sensibility a complexity that defies the simple distinction between "religious" and "secular." That complexity affects the entire discussion of the Jewish case on tolerance and censorshipespecially today, when Israel and its relationship to Zionism are central political and social concerns. In the light of this difficulty, Brian Klug inThe Jewish Casedevelops a critique of Jewish sensibilities from withinconfronting Judaism with itselfrather than attacking it from the outside. Focusing on the current controversy over Israel, and drawing on three basic features of Judaismiconoclasm, commitment to argument, and respect for human dignityKlug makes a Jewish case for outspokenness.

Author Biography

Brian Klug is a senior research fellow in philosophy at St Benet’s Hall, Oxford, and a member of the Philosophy Faculty at the University of Oxford. He is associate editor of the journal Patterns of Prejudice and is the author of Minding Our Language: Prejudice, Racism and Antisemitism, among other books.

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