Slavoj Zizek, Camille Paglia, Flemming Rose
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2019
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Can causing offence be a good thing? Philip Dodd explores this question with the Slovenian philosopher, the American author and the Danish journalist.
On the 15th February 1989 the Ayatollah Komeni issued a fatwah following the publication of Salman Rushdie’s novel The Satanic Verses. Flemming Rose is the man who published the Danish cartoons of the prophet Mohammed and ignited international controversy. Slavoj Zizek has been called the most dangerous philosopher in the West; and Camille Paglia, the cultural critic and intellectual provocateur considers the topics she can and can’t teach now in the lecture theatres of America’s universities.
Like A Thief In Broad Daylight: Power in the Era of Post-Human Capitalism by Slavoj Zizek is out now. Provocations: Collected Essays by Camille Paglia is out now. Flemming Rose is the author of The Tyranny of Silence, and a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, Washington DC.
Our Free Thinking arts & ideas playlist looking at Culture Wars and Discussions about Identity can be found here https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06jngzt
Producer: Zahid Warley
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| 0:37.4 | Hello, I'm Philip Dodd, and this is the Arts and, Radio Podcasts. |
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| 1:47.5 | Camille Pallier, cultural critic and intellectual provocateur, who outrages American liberals. |
| 1:55.8 | Slavo Gijsijek, the most dangerous philosopher in the West, according to one judgment, and Fleming Rose, |
| 2:03.2 | the publisher of the Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad, which set off explosions across the |
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