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This collection of essays and responses revisits and extends this extraordinary life of achievement and engagement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLeading scholars write here of Macintyre's contribution to understanding radicalism and communism, postwar reconstruction, education and civics, universities, liberalism, historiography and the history wars. They also tell us about collegiality and friendship.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe practice of history writing and telling has long been central to the narrative of the nation in Australia. \u003cem\u003eThe Work of History\u003c\/em\u003e connects us to that past. It raises the question of what comes next, and re-values Macintyre's contribution, serving both as a snapshot of the state of the historian's art and an introduction to those who come more recently to this highly contested field.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46657076363500,"sku":"9780522878608","price":43.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/3920623482374.jpg?v=1752483281"},{"product_id":"intimacy-in-postmodern-times-by-peter-beilharz-9781526132154","title":"Intimacy in Postmodern Times","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eZygmunt Bauman was one of the most important social theorists of recent decades. He did major work on the Holocaust, the postmodern, and much else, with up to fifty-eight books in English on almost as many topics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eIntimacy in Postmodern Times\u003c\/em\u003e, Australian sociologist Peter Beilharz, Bauman's collaborator for thirty years, recounts the details of their relationship, simultaneously charting the changes that have occurred in academic life from the 1980s to today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFriendship was one of the bonds that made Bauman and Beilharz's intellectual collaboration possible. Though the two were worlds apart in terms of biography and place, their work together was defined by a certain kind of intimacy. Separated by a generation, they collaborated for a generation together.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book follows their story in touching detail while puzzling over Bauman's rich yet contested legacy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46844151169260,"sku":"9781526132154","price":83.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9829053482731.jpg?v=1758828568"},{"product_id":"thinking-the-antipodes-by-peter-beilharz-9781922235558","title":"Thinking the Antipodes","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1956 Bernard Smith wrote that we in Australia were migratory birds. This was to become a leading motif of his own thinking, and a significant inspiration for Peter Beilharz. Beilharz came to argue that the idea of the antipodes made sense less in its geographical than its cultural form, viewed as a relation rather than a place. Australians had one foot here and one there, whichever there this was. This way of thinking with and after Bernard Smith makes up one current of Beilharz's best Australian essays.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTwo other streams contribute to the collection. The second recovers and publicises antipodean intellectuals, from Childe to Evatt to Stretton to Jean Martin, who have often been overshadowed here by the reception given to metropolitan celebrity thinkers. It examines others, like Hughes and Carey, who have been celebrated as writers more than as interpreters of the antipodean condition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe third stream engages with mainstream views of Australian writing, and with the limits of these views. 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