Bob Carr Links Hitler to European Colonial Tradition
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Bob Carr Links Hitler to European Colonial Tradition
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - University of NSW
Through personal references to great works of literature, the lecture will look at the precarious notion of human decency across a number of themes.These will include an examination of the literature about global warming - the climate change deniers vs the scientific rationalists; 20th Century totalitarianism and the human instinct for warmongering; Primo Levi, Alexander Solzhenitsyn and the 'literature of testimony'; and the question of whether there is cause for hope given the challenges we face in today's world - University of New South Wales
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - University of NSW
Through personal references to great works of literature, the lecture will look at the precarious notion of human decency across a number of themes.These will include an examination of the literature about global warming - the climate change deniers vs the scientific rationalists; 20th Century totalitarianism and the human instinct for warmongering; Primo Levi, Alexander Solzhenitsyn and the 'literature of testimony'; and the question of whether there is cause for hope given the challenges we face in today's world - University of New South Wales