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<P><FONT size=2><STRONG><FONT size=4><EM><FONT size=5>Ancient & Modern:
Time, culture and indigenous philosophy<BR></FONT></EM> by Stephen
Muecke<BR></FONT></STRONG><BR>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?<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR>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.<BR><BR><FONT size=3><STRONG>About
the Author</STRONG></FONT><BR><EM>Stephen Muecke</EM> 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): <EM>Reading the Country: Introduction to Nomadology</EM> (1984,
1996); <EM>Textual Spaces: Aboriginality and Cultural Studies</EM> (1992); the
fictocritical <EM>No</EM> <EM>Road </EM>(bitumen all the way); a translation of
José Gil's <EM>Metamorphoses of the Body</EM> (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
<EM>Legendary Tales of the Australian Aborigines</EM> (2001). He is co-editor of
<EM>The Cultural Studies Review</EM>.<BR><BR><STRONG><FONT
size=3>Contents<BR></FONT></STRONG>Section 1 Time<BR>1 'Once I knew how the
world worked'<BR>2 When, or where, did modern Australian culture begin?<BR>3 Why
I am not a historian<BR>4 The return to place<BR>5 History's poison blanket<BR>6
Performing life<BR>7 Morning coffee with Clarrie<BR>8 Devastation<BR>Section 2
Country<BR>1 How do you get to Alice Springs?<BR>2 'a burly Salt Water woman of
about my own age'<BR>3 Towards the Centre<BR>4 'OK if we camp here again?'<BR>5
Landscape and country<BR>6 Back to Rottnest<BR>7 A character called '62 Pontiac
Parisienne'<BR>8 A space for ethics<BR>Section 3 Creative activity<BR>1 'He
thinks, he desires'<BR>2 Indigenous capitalism<BR>3 Traveling the subterranean
river of blood<BR>4 Life, abundant life<BR>5 Boxer deconstructionist<BR>6
Indigenous modernities<BR>7 The religion of technology<BR>8 'I don't think they
invented the wheel': New Right assimilationism<BR>Section 4 Philosophy<BR>1
Philosophy of the Other continent<BR>2 Philosophical magic<BR>3 Nomads<BR>4
Secret English<BR>5 Language as singular or general<BR>6 Feelings of power<BR>7
The Other continent<BR>8 Philosophy from afar</FONT></P>
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786 0, October 2004, UNSW Press 248pp, 235 x 155 mm, PB, $39.95<BR>Illustrations
> 4 B&W illustrations<BR>
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