Ancient & Modern - Time, Culture and Indigenous Philosophy

Informationen zum Autor Stephen Muecke is professor of creative writing at Flinders University. Klappentext How might we think and talk about indigenous philosophy? Why has Aboriginal knowledge not been given the status of philosophical knowledge, but treated by whites rather as culture or history? There is a quarrel about whose antiquity is at the foundation of Australian culture, and why contemporary forms of Aboriginality are marginal to Australia's modernity. These are the starting points for the essays contained in Stephen Muecke's original and challenging book. Zusammenfassung There is a quarrel about whose antiquity is at the foundation of Australian culture! and why contemporary forms of Aboriginality are marginal to Australia's modernity. These are the starting points for the essays contained in Stephen Muecke's book.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Muecke
• Publisher: University Of Washington Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.03.2005
• EAN: 9780868407869
• ISBN: 978-0-86840-786-9
• No. of pages: 197
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 203 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories