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The Political Philosophy of Needs
In The Political Philosophy of Needs, Lawrence Hamilton contends that ‘[m]odern moral, legal, economic and political thought is characterized by an unwarranted glorification of the values of justice and welfare at the expense of political participation, democratic sovereignty, and the satisfaction of human needs’ (1). Hamilton’s most basic point is thus that political philosophy has [...]
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Action Chicks
Recent cinematic adaptations of female superheroes, such as 2004′s Catwoman and Elektra, were unsuccessful at the box office, and film critics found them largely without merit. However, fans of the comic books of the same names lay the blame for this on the films deviating too far from the original characters, rather than as a [...]
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Solving Nabokov's Lolita Riddle
‘There is a certain type of critic who when reviewing a work of fiction keeps dotting all the i’s with the author’s head. Recently one anonymous clown, writing on Pale Fire in a New York book review, mistook all the declarations of my invented commentator in the book for my own’ — Vladimir Nabokov (SO [...]
Review of Klaus and Knight: 'To Hell with Culture'
The thirteen essays in this collection are concerned with representations of anarchism and anarchists, but also with their misrepresentations. As Heather Worthington notes in the second essay in the collection, ‘anarchy’ originally meant ‘without a leader, or ruler’; in a modern sense it ought, therefore, simply to mean ‘society without a government’. ‘Anarchy’, however, has [...]
Review of Andrea Levy, Small Island
Levy’s choice of title is an important indication of the themes of her novel. During the Second World War, the people of Britain became more aware that they inhabited a ‘small island,’ as their vulnerability to invasion was exposed at the same time the British Empire began to retract. In the Caribbean, the expression ‘small [...]
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Masquerading as Subversion?
On 31 October each year, the population of Derry takes to the streets to celebrate Halloween in a way that seems difficult to reconcile with its ‘troubled’ history. This paper examines Halloween in Derry in the contexts of Irish folk customs and social history, and suggests that the possibility of carnival is not only a [...]
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Review of Christos Tsiolkas, Dead Europe
Vintage, 2005, reviewed by Humphrey McQueen A spectre is haunting Dead Europe – the spectre of post-Communism. Post-Communism isn’t the only ghost in this, the third fiction by the Greek-Australian writer Christos Tsiolkas. His new novel implies that after the breaching of the Berlin Wall, all manner of ghouls were let loose, taking flight with [...]
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Editorial
This is the yearly issue of Politics and Culture produced from Australia, the fourth since the journal started. The content of this issue much as for our others reflects the closeness of the historical ties politically, economically, culturally – and militarily – between Australia, and the United States and Britain. These have been foregrounded by [...]
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