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 language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Trauma, history, philosophy (with feature essays by Agnes Heller and Gyorgy Markus) |
| Editors | Matthew Sharpe, Murray Noonan, Jason Freddi |
| Place of Publication | Newcastle, UK |
| Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
| Pages | 10-24 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| ISBN (Print) | 1847183786 |
| Publication status | Published - 2007 |