{"product_id":"9781761043581","title":"Axiomatic","description":"Author: Tumarkin, Maria\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781761043581\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Penguin Australia Pty Ltd\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 04 May 2021\u003cbr\u003ePages: 224 \u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the winner of the Windham Campbell Prize\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the Melbourne Prize for Literature's Best Writing Award\u003cbr\u003eShortlisted for the 2019 Stella Prize\u003cbr\u003eShortlisted for the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-Fiction in the 2019 NSW Premier's Literary Awards\u003cbr\u003eLonglisted for the 2019 Indie Book Awards for Non-Fiction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe past shapes the present-they teach us that in schools and universities. (Shapes? Infiltrates, more like; imbues, infuses.) This past cannot be visited like an ageing aunt. It doesn't live in little zoo enclosures. Half the time, this past is nothing less than the beating heart of the present. So, how to speak of the searing, unpindownable power that the past-ours, our family's, our culture's-wields in the present?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eStories are not enough, even though they are essential. And books about history, books of psychology-the best of them take us closer, but still not close enough. Maria Tumarkin's \u003ci\u003eAxiomatic\u003c\/i\u003e is a boundary-shifting fusion of thinking, storytelling, reportage and meditation. It takes as its starting point five axioms: 'Time Heals All Wounds'; 'History Repeats Itself'; 'Those Who Forget the Past are Condemned to Repeat It'; 'Give Me a Child Before the Age of Seven and I Will Show You the Woman'; and 'You Can't Enter The Same River Twice.' \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThese beliefs-or intuitions-about the role the past plays in our present are often evoked as if they are timeless and self-evident truths. It is precisely because they are neither, yet still we are persuaded by them, that they tell us a great deal about the forces that shape our culture and the way we live.","brand":"Print on demand - Ships in 1 to 3 months","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48287353634974,"sku":"UBD-9781761043581","price":26.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781761043581.jpg?v=1789628285","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781761043581","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}