What is it about?
The 'generation of 1968' and the rise of identity politics in the 1970s-1990s questioned the values and ideology of conservative intellectuals in Australia as never before. Seen through the eyes of a professor of history at the University of Adelaide in South Australia, Austin Gough, the article explores the culture wars of the period and the rise of the New Right in the 1990s.
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Why is it important?
In a country where the public intellectual is a rarity, the case of Austin Gough brings to light both the problems of being a public intellectual in Australia and the personal and ideological risks that accompany such a role for a consevative academic. Austin Gough made a significant contribution to laying the foundations of the ideological wars that still trouble Australia today.
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Austin Gough was my teacher and mentor at the University of Adelaide in the 1970s. We were at opposite ends of the politcial spectrum, yet established a broadly positive rapport and Gough's assistance and encouragement iwe e decided sive factors in my postgraduate research career. My personal interest in Austin Gough's character and political trajectory arises from this ideological dissonance and personal affection.
Donato Longo
University of Adelaide
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This page is a summary of: The Fin-De-Siècle Academy and its Discontents: Austin Gough and the Betrayal of the Intellectuals, Journal of Labor and Society, July 2017, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/wusa.12293.
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