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Raimond Gaita, Scott Stephens (ed.)
The collected writings of Raimond Gaita.
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Raimond Gaita
Raymond Gaita interweaves stories about animals with reflections on how animals think, trust, hope and mourn. He argues that it is love which gives us the best model for the…
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This profound and arresting book draws on a wealth of examples to paint a provocative new picture of our common humanity.
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This book draws on examples to paint a picture of our common humanity.
This book won the 1998 Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Non Fiction and has been on the bestsellers list consistently since it was first published in 1998. It is a…
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Raimond Gaita's best-selling essay collection, with a new foreword by Maria Tumarkin
'From where will we draw the moral energy to stay true to justice?'
For more than three decades…
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Winner, Victorian Premier’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction, 1998
Romulus Gaita fled Yugoslavia aged thirteen, and came to Australia with his wife and their son soon after World War II. Tragic…
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Many people are now dismayed by the relaxed attitude of governments here and abroad towards truth telling. In Australia, examples include WMD and Iraq, ‘children overboard’ and the Manildra affair…
Raimond Gaita brings together a thought-provoking collection of essays by public intellectuals on the subject of conflict. Following the Israeli Army invasion of the Gaza Strip, Australians are left with…
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More than six months after the US-led ‘Coalition of the Willing’ to invade Iraq, huge questions remain about the decision to topple the murderous dictatorship of Saddam Hussein. This book…
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September 11, 2001 marked a change in Australian attitudes towards immigrants. The spotlight was on Muslims. The essays here look at multiculturalism’s successes and failures in providing a secure, well-integrated…
In 1998, Raimond Gaita’s Romulus, My Father was first published;the story of his father who came to Australia from Europe with his young wife Christine and their four-year-old son after…
The philosopher Raimond Gaita has always been fascinated by animals- their obvious intelligence and disturbing brutality, their uncanny responsiveness to our moods and needs, the deep feelings they elicit from…
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In Good and Evil: An Absolute Conception, Raimond Gaita draws moral philosophy away from the academic study of ethics and considers instead how real people actually talk and feel about…
The author draws moral philosophy away from the academic study of ethics and considers instead how real people actually think, talk and feel about morality. Australian author.
The voices in this volume, those of philosophers from Britain, Europe, America and Australia, speak in different tones of sumpathy and criticism of Winch and his conception of human conditioning.
Craig Taylor
The essays in this collection examine the influence of Gaita’s ethical thought in this broader sense, and particularly within Australian society and culture where it has been most significant. Craig…
The work of Raimond Gaita has made an outstanding and controversial contribution to philosophy. In this superb collection an international team of contributors examine the full range of Gaita’s thought.
Alex Skovron
After the Germans invaded Poland, Jacob G. Rosenberg was confined with his family in the Lodz Ghetto until they were sent to Auschwitz. All the members of his family (except…
