Inside Australian Culture: Legacies of Enlightenment Values
English
By (author): Adele Wessell Baden Offord Erika Kerruish Kirsten Pavlovic Rob Garbutt
Inside Australian Culture: Legacies of Enlightenment Values offers a critical intervention in the continuing effects of colonization in Australia and the structures it brought, which still inform and dominate its public culture. Through a careful analysis of three disparate but significant moments in Australian history, the authors investigate the way the British Enlightenment continues to dominate contemporary Australian thinking and values. Employing the lens of Indian cultural theorist Ashis Nandy, the authors argue for an Australian public culture that is profoundly conscious of its assumptions, history and limitations.
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