Multiculturalism, Australia & Oceania - Politics & Government, National Characteristics - Australia & Oceanania, Australian History - General & Miscellaneous, Australian & Oceanic Studies - Australia & New Zealand
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Overview
In The Gauche Intruder, Jennifer Rutherford traces the formation of an Australian moral code at the heart of white Australian identity. Advocating an ethics of desire in opposition to morality, she demonstrates the link between morality and aggression in the history of white Australia, showing that aggression has historically manifested itself at the very moment when white Australia has set out to do good. The Gauche Intruder provides a first introduction to the social and political significance of Lacan's Ethics of Psychoanalysis.This title traces the formation of an Australian moral code at the heart of white Australian identity. Reflecting on the persistence of this code into the 21st century, it seeks to show how it "has engendered, and continues to engender, not only brutality to others, but brutality to the self".
Book Details
Published
February 1, 2001
Publisher
Melbourne University Press, 2000
Pages
239
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780522849172