- Introducing History Service – Philosophy in Literature History
‘Horizon Worldviews’ is Dr Buch’s terms for a particular category of personal or life philosophies adopted by individual Queenslanders. It is the category of worldviews, or ‘world-picture’ as described by Wittgenstein, which provided more formative or structured thought, culturally or socially transmitted into Queensland. ‘Horizon Worldviews’ is the global literature of the ideologies, disciplined philosophies, sociologies, and other studies of our humanity and geo-landscape. In Queensland history, horizon worldviews are not merely been transmitted from attending the educational institutions. In many cases, there have been Queensland intellectuals and thinkers outside the institutions, and unfortunately have been hidden from view by the literary ‘Queensland Character’ mythology.
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ANNOUNCING…
2019 International Society for Intellectual History Conference, at the University of Queensland, from Wednesday 5 – Friday 7 June.
I will be presenting a paper on ‘The Australian Literary Setting of the ‘Queensland Character’ and Mid-Twentieth Century Philosophy: The Philosophical Development of Jack McKinney and the Problem of Knowledge 1935-1975.’
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THE MARKETING DEAL OF THE CENTURY!
This month only! If you ask for a service in Philosophy in Literature History, you will get 10% off the marketplace professional rate!
THE SCHOLARSHIP
The above announcement is a piece of satire. Like all satire, there is a grain of truth. People sometimes do not get satire, so I will explain. Public history was once supported by public institutions. Under the narrative of neo-liberal economies, public history is now expected to be supported by the market. The problem, as explained by the best and honest economists, is that there are some areas of society that are not meant to be placed on the market, those areas that can never be ‘efficient’ (in reality) through competition policy. Researched education, learning and scholarship, is one of those areas.
Since neo-liberal politicians have won the day, those of us who are professional humanities and social science workers have been forced into a choice, with the exception in the paper-thin token number of colleagues, luck enough to have one of the very few positions still open at universities, or other public institutions. We are forced to choose to abandon our careers in professional research, even as we have proved ourselves in higher degrees and quality publications, OR we place our services to the marketplace, until the day returns when we are sufficiently employed back in the public sphere.
The grain of truth in the above satire piece is that I will provide a history service for a price, negotiable around the Professional Historians Australia fee scale. The other business option is lobbying for the return of public funding levels to public institutions for the sufficient employment of professional researchers.
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