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Australian History

Reading and suffering

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December 1992, no. 147
Australian History

Reading and suffering

by •
December 1992, no. 147

Why do we read what we read? Bookshelves groan with biography, travel, social theory far left corner, cultural studies creeping up the front, Baudrillard in the back door and out the front. Some people’s books get featured in the weekend papers, others go straight into the back of the car and the second-hand shops. Love, sweat and tears … what’s it all for?

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Peter Beilharz is an Australian sociologist who has taught at La Trobe and Curtin University. He is the founding editor of Thesis Eleven and has published books devoted to writers and scholars such as Karl Marx, Bernard Smith, and Zygmunt Bauman. 

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