Mind of the Nation: Universities in Australian Life
$36.11
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
13 June 2023
Summary
In this thought-provoking and timely examination, academic and writer Michael Wesley asks what Australians really think and how they feel about our universities, and where to next?
In 1964, Donald Horne wrote in his classic The Lucky Country that, in a sense, ‘Australia does not have a mind. Intellectual life exists but … has no established relation to practical life.’ For Horne, Australia’s universities were marginalised; they were places where ‘clever men nurse the wounds o…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781760643706 |
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| ISBN-10: | 176064370X |
| Author: | Michael Wesley |
| Publisher: | Black Inc. |
| Imprint: | La Trobe University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 13 June 2023 |
| Weight: | 348g |
| Dimensions: | 21mm x 154mm x 234mm |
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Michael Wesley
Michael Wesley is deputy vice-chancellor international at the University of Melbourne and was formerly dean of ANU’s College of Asia and the Pacific. His previous books include Restless Continent- Wealth, Rivalry and Asia’s New Geopolitics and There Goes the Neighbourhood- Australia and the Rise of Asia. His forthcoming book is Mind of the Nation.
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