The Turin Book Fair Controversy: A Debate
The Turin Book Fair Controversy: A Debate
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Uproar broke out after Turin’s International Book Fair announced plans to honor the state of Israel on its sixtieth anniversary. Several European and Arab intellectuals threatened to boycott the event while others, including Dissent co-editor Mitchell Cohen, argued that the call to boycott represented a larger “campaign across borders to de-legitimize one state and apply standards to this one state that are applied to nobody else.”
With the book fair a month away, Cohen and fellow political theorist Andrew Arato debate the issues surrounding the Turin Controversy.
>>Read Mitchell Cohen in an interview with Elisabetta Ambrosi
>>Read Arato’s “Attacking the Left is Evasion”
>>Read Cohen’s “Missing the Point”
>>Read Arato’s “Israel and Ethnocentrism”
>>Read Cohen’s “Against Integral Cosmopolitanism”
The interview and exchange originally appeared on Reset: Dialogues on Civilization. ©ResetDOC.
