Censorship Moments
- Censorship in varying forms has been part of human experience for 2
- 500 years and has proved itself to be a recurring presence for political thought
- Whether as active repression
- A shaping context for expression
- Or as itself a subject for analysis and argument
- From the death of Socrates to the fatwa against Salman Rushdie
- Attempts to silence thinkers and writers have provoked passionate and often penetrating responses that speak of their historical moment
- Censorship Moments will provide short
- Accessible and stimulating access to a variety of these responses
- Each chapter will couple a short textual 'moment' of writing on censorship and freedom of expression by a past writer with analysis by an expert current scholar
