A collection of fifteen essays by well-known academics which together present a comprehensive discussion of the main aspects of Australian intellectual life and social inquiry in the 20th century. By focusing on the period since 1920, the book avoids any direct engagement with the debate over the significance of the 1890s. The chapters fall into four main categories. There are overviews of intellectual life in Australia, looking at processes of professionalization, institutional networks, career patterns, overseas influences, and the relations between intellectuals and society at large. Some chapters are reminiscences of intellectual life for different generations of Australian scholarship; others deal with a particular group, school or ideology, and others discuss a disciplinary area.
- ISBN10 0195546075
- ISBN13 9780195546071
- Publish Date 12 May 1988
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 10 September 2009
- Publish Country AU
- Publisher Oxford University Press Australia
- Imprint OUP Australia and New Zealand
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English