Reviews
The wounded man
by Geoff Gallop , September 2008Any summary of Clive Hamilton's contributions to public debate thus far would focus on two themes: his savage criticism of modern society and its 'fetish for growth'; and his rejection of contemporary politics, in particular the theory and practice of social democracy. Australian Book Review
In Search of Essence
by Pete Hay , August 2008Hamilton is remarkably Renaissance in his intellectual range, and now he has written an ambitious and peculiarly vulnerable book of philosophical abstraction and application, one that conjoins German metaphysical idealism to that staid and dusty old branch of philosophical speculation, Ethics. The Monthly Read the review at http://www.themonthly.com.au/tm/node/1135
When freedom is not enough
by John Carroll , August 2008Clive Hamilton begins this book with a simple proposition. We have achieved in the West what anyone might imagine to be the two prerequisites to a fulfilling and happy life: affluence and freedom. ... So what went wrong? Australian Literary Review
Don't mess with the noumenon
by Brenton Holmes , August 2008Clive Hamilton is nothing if not a man of conviction. So for him to confess to some serious rethinking about his position is in itself a tantalising inducement to read what he has to say. ... Canberra Times