Lloyd's book is a provocative essay on the fragmen tation of the self as explored in philosophy and literature. The past is irrevocable, conscious ness changes as time passes: given this can there ever be such a thing as the unity of the self?
This new edition of Genevieve Lloyd's classic study of the maleness of reason in philosophy contains a new introduction and bibliographical essay assessing the book's place in the explosion of writing and gender since 1984.
Land and Country brings philosophical thinking into direct engagement with Australia’s public debates on national identity, drawing on the author’s own family history of convict descent.