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The research game

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June 2013, no. 352

Taking Stock: The Humanities in Australia edited by Mark Finnane and Ian Donaldson

UWA Publishing, $19.99 epub/mobi/e-PDF, 9781742583730

The research game

by
June 2013, no. 352

This is a highly intelligent collection of essays by some of the nation’s finest minds about the ebb and flow of intellectual endeavour in the humanities since the institution of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1969. In the thirty-one essays – built around keynotes, panels, and responses – there are too many gems among them for me to be willing to pick out individual contributions for particular attention. If you care for the life of the mind and for our culture, download the e-book and peruse it, according to your interests. These are mainly stories of success, in transforming disciplines and the like. Less flatteringly, they are also a reminder that the humanities were more central in Australian universities back in 1969 than now.

Robert Phiddian reviews 'Taking Stock' edited by Mark Finnane and Ian Donaldson

Taking Stock: The Humanities in Australia

edited by Mark Finnane and Ian Donaldson

UWA Publishing, $19.99 epub/mobi/e-PDF, 9781742583730

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