Reviews


The following book reviews are now available on our website.


"Every poem is an epitaph"

Julian Lamb

Our Canberra-based reviewer finds the work by R.L.Brett, Faith and Doubt: Religion and Secularisation in Literature from Wordsworth to Larkin to be "a book easy to fall in love with but whose richness eludes synopsis".


A Wearable Postmodernism.

Winifred Wing Han Lamb

Dr Lamb, from the Australian National University, reviews Christopher Falzon's Foucault and Social Dialogue - Beyond Fragmentation, finding ultimately that "it serves to dispel the charge from some quarters that postmodernist philosophy is nothing more than pretentious 'imposturing'."


"Thick and Thin" in the Public Forum.

Winifred Wing Han Lamb

Dr Lamb, from the Australian National University, reviews Brown and Gasgoingne's Faith in the Public Forum.

"Our debate about the public life in contemporary liberal democracies have been framed within a 'secularisation thesis' and in the context of liberal understandings of what constitutes 'public' and 'private'. Accordingly, we have fastened upon the parallel, regulative notions of 'thin' and 'thick' to resolve the 'fact of pluralism'. In order that the heterogeneity of human selfhood is affirmed and freedom is not stifled, it is believed that the public realm must be thinned of what is highly textured and this includes religious notions of the good life."



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