DENIAL: The Unspeakable Truth

By Keith Kahn-Harris

The holocaust never happened. The planet isn't warming. Vaccines harm children. The Earth is flat. Denialism comes in many forms, often dressed in the garb of scholarship. It's certainly insidious, but what if, as Kahn-Harris asks, it actually cloaks much darker, unspeakable, desires? If denialists could speak from the heart, what would we hear? Kahn-Harris sets out to expose what lies at the heart of denialism. The conclusions he reaches are shocking. In a world of 'fake news', are the denialists about to secure victory?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Notting Hill Editions
• Release date: Sep 13, 2018
• ISBN: 9781910749975

Keith Kahn-Harris

Keith Kahn-Harris is a sociologist and writer. He combines freelance writing with an academic teaching and research career. His titles for Icon include The Babel Message and Everyday Jews His website is kahn-harris.org. He lives in London.

Reviews for DENIAL

[michael5rimmer · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

Kahn-Harris looks denialism squarely in the eye, finds it ugly, unpalatable, and also an understandable human response to complexity and "dark desires" which modern liberal societies morally reject, whilst often still enacting.His own unpalatable truth is that denialist ideology can't be logically reasoned with nor legislated into silence and therefore has to be engaged with, though not on its own terms, providing a template for doing so. Not exactly a comforting read, but an interesting, unflinching and thought-provoking one.