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Göran Rosenberg
is a Swedish writer and journalist, born in 1948 to Polish-Jewish survivors of the Holocaust. In 1990 he founded the Swedish monthly magazine of essays and opinions, Moderna Tider. He is a regular columnist and essayist of the Swedish daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter.
Among his books are Friare kan ingen vara, an essay on the American idea (Norstedts 1991), Det förlorade landet, a personal history of Messianism, Zionism and the State of Israel (Bonniers 1996; also in Norwegian, Danish, Dutch, German [Das verlorene Land, Suhrkamp Verlag 1998], and French [L’utopie perdue, Denoël 2002]), Tankar om journalistik, Reflections on Journalism, (Prisma 2000; also in Danish and Norwegian), and Plikten, profiten och konsten att vara människa, Duty, Profit and the Art of Being Human (Bonniers 2003; also in Danish and Norwegian). His most recent book, Utan facit. Kolumner och kommentarer i tiden, was published by Bonniers in April 2006. Rosenbergs essays have been translated and published in, among others, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Lettre Internationale, Daedalus, New Perspectives Quarterly, and New York Times. More on Göran Rosenberg on his website.Eurozine Articles
Back in the ghetto
The Israeli Right nurtures the image of the nation of Israel as a bastion under eternal siege but fails to see that Israel is laying siege to the Palestinians. The window of opportunity opened by the Oslo agreement has been closed for good, fears Göran Rosenberg. [Italian version added] [more]
The futility of military superiority
How long will the US continue to rely on military superiority when to do so undermines the political justification for its dominance? [more]
Freedom of expression and its limits
The principle of absolute freedom of expression is always qualified by tacit agreements within societies on what can and cannot be said. [more]
The world as a problem and USA as its solution?
Behind the recent conflict between America and Europe lies a radical shift in policy. But this shift has not been made in Germany, in France or in any of the other countries in "old Europe", writes Göran Rosenberg. What has happened, took place in the White House. [more]
Anti-Semitism: Real and imagined threats
The fact that anti-Semites phantasize about Jews does not entail that Jews should phantasize about anti-Semites. Israel must take note and should cease to legitimize its military operations in this way. [more]
A pluralist democracy
The democracies of today can remain democracies only if they are able to negotiate pluralism and communality, conflict and justice, rationality and identity. Federation is a possible response to this challenge, writes Göran Rosenberg. [more]
The War of Words
On Being Able to Describe the Conceivable and the Possible
The decision to define the events of September 11 as an act of war had far-reaching implications for the way in which the mass media portrayed the developments that followed. Events and deeds that journalists should have reserved the right to articulate themselves were put into their mouths pre-articulated, writes Göran Rosenberg in an article from our focal point Media and Politics. [more]