By A. Mondal
Was Salman Rushdie correct to have written The Satanic Verses ? have been the protestors correct to have performed so? What in regards to the Danish cartoons? This ebook examines the ethical questions raised via cultural controversies, and the way intercultural discussion may be generated inside of multicultural societies.
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Speech act’. She merely argues that such a politics is possible because speech is always ‘vulnerable’ and never ‘sovereign’. Moreover, if ‘speech acts still are a function of power’, then it cannot be assumed that the power to speak is ‘available to all’ and so ‘resignificatory speech acts . . 55 This is clearly what has occurred in relation to ‘offensiveness’, and it more satisfactorily explains the metastasization of ‘taking offence’ through the body politic than the ‘marketplace of outrage’.
20 But ‘offensiveness’ is not a species of ‘speech’ which ‘adjoins’ other forms of speech; offensive speech, like all speech, consists of words, which are arbitrary signs that produce meaning only within the framework of an entire sign-system. Meaning does not inhere in signs, but is produced by each sign’s differential relationship to all other signs in the system. Likewise, offensiveness cannot be said to inhere in any given utterance. Rather, it is, as I have argued in the previous chapter, an effect of a particular kind of verbal performance, one that is entirely context-specific because it is a manner or way of speaking that elicits its effect only in relation to specific 38 Islam and Controversy addressees.
Topics and arguments were ruled off-limits; real and imagined heresies denounced with phlegm-spitting vehemence; and comforting histories promulgated on how black Egypt was responsible for the philosophies of ancient Athens, or how Amazonian tribes were noble savages living in a state of prelapsarian harmony until wicked whitey came along. Islamism came into universities whose academics had the good liberal motive that they should not discriminate against students because of their race or religion, but whose intellectual defences had been weakened by the hysterical attitudes the culture wars fostered .