Thinking trauma

Max Deutscher

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    Abstract

    Max Deutscher provides a wide-ranging and often poetic reflection on trauma focussing on Hannah Arendt’s thought. Deutscher draws the etymological link between ‘trauma’ and dream (traum) as a means to reflect on the single most divisive issue in contemporary Australia’s ‘culture wars’: how contemporary Australians are to come to terms with the founding trauma of European settlement in this country, and the violent confrontation and supplanting of aboriginal civilisation.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationTrauma, history, philosophy (with feature essays by Agnes Heller and Gyorgy Markus)
    EditorsMatthew Sharpe, Murray Noonan, Jason Freddi
    Place of PublicationNewcastle, UK
    PublisherCambridge Scholars Publishing
    Pages10-24
    Number of pages15
    ISBN (Print)1847183786
    Publication statusPublished - 2007

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