[csaa-forum] Ancient & Modern: Time, culture and indigenous philosophy by Stephen Muecke - 20% discount to CSAA members

[Nella Soeterboek]

UNSW Press is pround to announce the October release of -
Ancient & Modern: Time, culture and indigenous philosophy
 by Stephen Muecke

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.

Blending anecdote, theory and personal reflection, Muecke moves from film to
travel to politics to religion, gathering knowledge, revisiting theory and
recasting key assumptions. With passion and conviction, and a sense of
experiment and discovery, Ancient & Modern calls for a new kind of
modernity. This will be a modernity that is contradictory, yet inclusive at
the same time, and which allows for a range of inventive responses to the
contemporary world.

About the Author
Stephen Muecke holds a Personal Chair in Cultural Studies at the University
of Technology, Sydney, and is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the
Humanities. His books include (with Paddy Roe and Krim Benterrak): Reading
the Country: Introduction to Nomadology (1984, 1996); Textual Spaces:
Aboriginality and Cultural Studies (1992); the fictocritical No Road
(bitumen all the way); a translation of José Gil's Metamorphoses of the Body
(1998); and the children's story About this little devil and this little
fella, edited for Albert Barunga (1999).  He recently edited (with Adam
Shoemaker) David Unaipon's Legendary Tales of the Australian Aborigines
(2001). He is co-editor of The Cultural Studies Review.

Contents
Section 1 Time
1 'Once I knew how the world worked'
2 When, or where, did modern Australian culture begin?
3 Why I am not a historian
4 The return to place
5 History's poison blanket
6 Performing life
7 Morning coffee with Clarrie
8 Devastation
Section 2 Country
1 How do you get to Alice Springs?
2 'a burly Salt Water woman of about my own age'
3 Towards the Centre
4 'OK if we camp here again?'
5 Landscape and country
6 Back to Rottnest
7 A character called '62 Pontiac Parisienne'
8 A space for ethics
Section 3 Creative activity
1 'He thinks, he desires'
2 Indigenous capitalism
3 Traveling the subterranean river of blood
4 Life, abundant life
5 Boxer deconstructionist
6 Indigenous modernities
7 The religion of technology
8 'I don't think they invented the wheel': New Right assimilationism
Section 4 Philosophy
1 Philosophy of the Other continent
2 Philosophical magic
3 Nomads
4 Secret English
5 Language as singular or general
6 Feelings of power
7 The Other continent
8 Philosophy from afar

Specifications
0 86840 786 0, October 2004, UNSW Press 248pp, 235 x 155 mm, PB, $39.95
Illustrations > 4 B&W illustrations



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