Author: Passmore, John.
Title: Memoirs of a Semi-Detached Australian.
Description: Melbourne, Carlton South Melbourne University Press (MUP), 1997. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good plus condition (in very good plus dustjacket), maps, black & white photos, minor edgewear jacket, autograph (author's written name title page), owner's small written name. 274 pp. Memoirs of a Semi-detached Australian, by John Passmore (first edition, 1997, 274 pages). The autobiography of Australian philosopher John Passmore. He takes an unsentimental journey from his childhood in Manly to the hothouse environment of the University of Sydney, and on to the realities of his imagined Europe. He mounts a passionate defence of the life of the mind, displaying the intellectual energy and insight that has made him a philosopher of international stature. ISBN: 0522847668

Keywords: australian biography, autobiography, philosophy, philosophers, new south wales (nsw), sydney, autograph 0522847668


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