Civil Passions: Selected WritingsA collection of superbly readable pieces on politics and society, Australia and Eastern Europe by emininent Sydney law professor and Boyer lecturer, Martin Krygier. |
Contents
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Worse Than Provincial Parochial | 30 |
The Curates Egg | 43 |
Subjects Objects and the Colonial Rule of Law | 56 |
The Character of the Nation | 92 |
Neighbours | 114 |
The Good That Governments Do | 177 |
In Praise of Prejudice | 201 |
The Price of Purity | 210 |
ConservativeLiberalSocialism Revisited | 217 |
Stalemated in Poland | 239 |
Life in an Abnormal Country | 261 |
Gypsies the Law and Me | 277 |
Traps for Young Players in Times of Transition | 285 |
The Rhetoric of Reaction | 130 |
Between Fear and Hope | 147 |
The Uses of Civility | 163 |
Parables of Hope and Disappointment | 294 |
Publication Details | 301 |
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