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Obituary — Peter Munz
Peter Munz (1921-2006) In 1924 Stalin is reputed to have said that of academicse had no fear but intellectuals were always a threat. Emeritus Professor Peter Munz was an intellectual, challenging received wisdom, brave in his judgements and a…
What minds make, Nelson Wattie
Beyond Wittgenstein’s Poker: New Light on Popper and Wittgenstein Peter Munz Ashgate Publishing Limited, $62.00, ISBN 0754640159 Working at the interface between literature and science, Gillian Beer recently asked in The Guardian: “How do you have new ideas? Language is…
Tagged with: Ashgate Publishing Limited, Issue 67, Nelson Wattie, Peter Munz, Spring 2004
Posted in Imprints, Review
Posted in Imprints, Review
Don’t get your Lyotard in a twist, Peter Munz
University Futures and the Politics of Reform in New Zealand Michael Peters and Peter Roberts Dunmore Press, $34.95, ISBN 0 86469 350 8 During the last fifteen years, our universities have been transformed from moderately well-functioning collegiate institutions educating students…
Tagged with: Dunmore Press, Issue 44, Michael Peters, Peter Munz, Peter Roberts
Posted in Education, Non-fiction, Review
Posted in Education, Non-fiction, Review
Open and closed research Peter Munz
Decolonizing Methodologies. Research and Indigenous Peoples Linda Tuhiwai Smith University of Otago Press, $39.95, ISBN 1 877133 67 1 This book is likely to obfuscate politico-social debates in New Zealand because it maintains that acquiring knowledge about indigenous peoples, as…
Tagged with: Issue 41, Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Peter Munz, University of Otago Press
Posted in Non-fiction, Sociology
Posted in Non-fiction, Sociology
The shapes of time, Shelagh Duckham Cox
The Certainty of Doubt. Tributes to Peter Munz Miles Fairburn and W H Oliver (eds) Victoria University Press, Wellington, $39.95 ISBN 086473302X Immigration is a strange enterprise. In 1966, just off the Northern Star, heading for the exit of the…
Tagged with: Issue 24, Miles Fairburn, Peter Munz, Shelagh Duckham Cox, Victoria University Press, W H Oliver
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Posted in Non-fiction, Review, Sociology
Fairburn and the Antiquarians, Peter Munz
The New Zealand Journal of History Vol. 25, No2, 1991, Auckland, The University of Auckland Even today’s old countries were once new, but the new countries of the 19th century had a newness of their own. Where much has been…
Peter Munz
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