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Pond Hockey is a fiction tale of a country boy who heads to the big
city to seek his fortune, only to encounter defeat. Todd then
returns home to his ailing mother where he rediscovers the local
pond where he played hockey in his youth. Todd comes to head the
men's hockey team as they prepare for the world pond hockey
championship in Canada and en route discovers how to put past
failures behind him.
John Anderson was Australia's most important philosopher in the
first half of this century. The young Scotsman held the chair of
philosophy at the University of Sydney for thirty years until
retirement in 1958. He developed his own distinctive system of
realism and fathered a vigorous local school characterised by
inquiry, independence and a deep commitment to philosophy as a way
of life. He was a formidable public figure and fierce
controversialist who outraged many of Sydney's conventionally
minded. From an early Marxist phase, he opposed all forms of
censorship and mind control. This first biography of Anderson is no
hagiography, containing much new material about Anderson's Scottish
past and his conflicted public and private life. His relations with
students were complex; with women, they were decidedly problematic.
In the aftermath of a pragmatic revolution that has swept our
universities and colleges, Anderson;s uncompromising calls to
unfettered inquiry, and the Socratic way of life are timely.
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