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Matei Candea is a professor of social anthropology at the University of Cambridge, with an international record of publication in the fields of anthropology, social studies of science and the history of ideas. From 2016 to 2021, he led an international research project on the anthropology of free speech, called Risking Speech, funded by the European Research Council. Reason, Carnival and Honour is his first trade book.
In this insightful book, Matei Candea offers us a map with which to make sense of free speech debates over the past decade. Reason, Carnival and Honour is a must-read for anyone who wants to take seriously the claims they live by and — just as crucially — the claims of others -- Matthew Engelke A fresh and thought-provoking analysis of what our battles over free speech are really about, and why they are so heated and intractable. Instead of just focusing on their apparent political or social dimensions, he suggests, we need also to see them as always articulating differing visions of freedom, power, ethics, and language itself -- Fara Dabhoiwala
