Christoph Türcke
(b.1948) is Professor of Philosophy at Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig. His books include Fundamentalismus - maskierter Nihilismus (2003) and Erregte Gesellschaft. Philosophie der Sensation (2002).
Eurozine Articles
Blasphemy
On the structure of mass insult
Satire, a necessary instrument of rationalist critique, becomes triumphalist when directed at the humiliated. It was the perception of the Mohammed cartoons as the West's victorious mockery that so incensed the Islamic world. [more]





