A Political Memoir: Intellectual Combat In The Cold War And The Culture Wars (SIGNED)
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Few intellectuals have navigated the ideological battlegrounds of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries with as much candour and conviction as Robert Manne, and this memoir is his unflinching account of a life lived at the intersection of ideas and controversy. A Political Memoir: Intellectual Combat in the Cold War and the Culture Wars chronicles Manne's evolution from a Cold War conservative to one of Australia's most prominent left-leaning public intellectuals, mapping the seismic shifts in his thinking against the backdrop of global political upheaval, the rise of the Australian right, and the bruising domestic debates over history, Indigenous policy, and media power. Manne writes with remarkable self-awareness and moral seriousness, holding his own past positions to the same rigorous scrutiny he applies to his adversaries, making this as much an act of intellectual reckoning as personal testimony. His prose is precise and combative, reflecting decades spent as an essayist and academic who understood that ideas have consequences and that the struggle over meaning is never merely academic. For readers who wish to understand how Australia's culture wars were fought — and by whom — this memoir presents an indispensable, and deeply provocative, insider account.
Author: Robert Manne
Format: Hardback
Published: 2024, La Trobe University Press in conjunction with Black Inc.
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Very good
Pages: Good
Markings: Signed
Few intellectuals have navigated the ideological battlegrounds of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries with as much candour and conviction as Robert Manne, and this memoir is his unflinching account of a life lived at the intersection of ideas and controversy. A Political Memoir: Intellectual Combat in the Cold War and the Culture Wars chronicles Manne's evolution from a Cold War conservative to one of Australia's most prominent left-leaning public intellectuals, mapping the seismic shifts in his thinking against the backdrop of global political upheaval, the rise of the Australian right, and the bruising domestic debates over history, Indigenous policy, and media power. Manne writes with remarkable self-awareness and moral seriousness, holding his own past positions to the same rigorous scrutiny he applies to his adversaries, making this as much an act of intellectual reckoning as personal testimony. His prose is precise and combative, reflecting decades spent as an essayist and academic who understood that ideas have consequences and that the struggle over meaning is never merely academic. For readers who wish to understand how Australia's culture wars were fought — and by whom — this memoir presents an indispensable, and deeply provocative, insider account.