The Killing of History: How a Discipline Is Being Murdered by Literary Criticism

Windschuttle, Keith

History

Macleay Press

Men and women of revolutionary France, 1789--1871. This book presents two main themes: the birth, in the French Revolution of 1789, of an on-going tradition of democracy and equality, and the transformation of the French working class from a pre-industrial sporadic force to a conscious and organized political movement, a process completed by the end of the nineteenth century.

Tribunes & Amazons

Rose, R. B.

Little known outside his native Australia, David Stove was one of the most illuminating and brilliant philosophical essayists of his era. A fearless attacker of intellectual and cultural orthodoxies, Stove left powerful critiques of scientific irrationalism, Darwinian theories of human behavior, and philosophical idealism. Since its inception in the 1940s, the field of science studies, originally intended to bridge the gap between science and the humanities, has been the center of controversy and debate. The most notable figures in this debate are Thomas Kuhn and Karl Popper. In Scientific Irrationalism, now available in paperback, David Stove demonstrates how extravagant has been the verbiage wasted on this issue and how irrational the combatants have been. He shows that Kuhn and Popper share considerable common ground. Stove argues that the problems all reside in the reasoning of the critics. He identifies the logical mistakes and conceptual allusions made by Kuhn and Popper and their supporters, as well as their collective dependency on a single argument made by the philosopher of the Scottish Enlightenment, David Hume. He then demonstrates how little potency that argument actually has for the claims of science. In his foreword, Keith Windschuttle explains the debate surrounding the field of science studies and explores David Stove's contribution as well as his lack of recognition. In an afterword, James Franklin discusses reactions to Stove's work.

Anything Goes: Origins of the Cult of Scientific Irrationalism

Stove, David

Science & Math

This is the first volume in a series that re-appraises the now widely accepted story about conflict between colonists and Aborigines in Australian history. Beginning in Tasmania, and eventually covering the whole of the Australian mainland, the volumes find that the academic historians of the last thirty years have greatly exaggerated the degree of violence that occurred. In a close re-examination of the primary sources used by historians, Keith Windschuttle concludes that much of their case is poorly founded, other parts are seriously mistaken, and some of it is outright fabrication. The author finds the British colonization of the Australia was the least violent of all Europes encounters with the New World. It did not meet any organized resis­tance. Conflict was sporadic rather than systematic. The notion of frontier warfare is fictional. To describe the process as genocide is to use hyperbole that is unsupported by the historical evidence.

The Fabrication of Aboriginal History: Volume One: Van Diemen's Land 1803-1847

Australia & Oceania

The Fabrication of Aboriginal History Vol 3: Vol. 3: The Stolen Generations 1881-2008

Corrupting the youth: A history of philosophy in Australia

Franklin, James

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