The Novel, Sense-Making, and Mao

Macris, A

The Novel, Sense-Making, and Mao

Macris, A

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Publisher:: Writing and Society Research Centre
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Sydney Review of Books, 2015
Issue Date:: 2015-10-15

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dc.contributor.author	Macris, A https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2110-2351	en_US
dc.date.issued	2015-10-15	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Sydney Review of Books, 2015	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	2201-8735	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/122163
dc.description.abstract	There was a in-joke floating around the University of Sydney when I was an arts student in the early 1980s that is telling of the times. It went something like this: Sydney has only one opera house, only one harbour bridge, but its university has two philosophy departments. One discipline, but two departments? Clearly, despite being friends of wisdom, these philosophers couldn’t agree. Somewhere in the hushed halls of the university’s sandstone towers, well before my time, some kind of schism had occurred, creating the Department of Traditional and Modern Philosophy, and the Department of General Philosophy. Looking at the course offerings, even my naïve undergraduate understanding could grasp the difference. Trad Mod was right-wing and conservative, and General was left-wing and progressive. In my first year, I decided to do subjects in both departments.	en_US
dc.publisher	Writing and Society Research Centre	en_US
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dc.title	The Novel, Sense-Making, and Mao	en_US
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Abstract:

There was a in-joke floating around the University of Sydney when I was an arts student in the early 1980s that is telling of the times. It went something like this: Sydney has only one opera house, only one harbour bridge, but its university has two philosophy departments. One discipline, but two departments? Clearly, despite being friends of wisdom, these philosophers couldn’t agree. Somewhere in the hushed halls of the university’s sandstone towers, well before my time, some kind of schism had occurred, creating the Department of Traditional and Modern Philosophy, and the Department of General Philosophy. Looking at the course offerings, even my naïve undergraduate understanding could grasp the difference. Trad Mod was right-wing and conservative, and General was left-wing and progressive. In my first year, I decided to do subjects in both departments.

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