Showing results for "Great Expectations" in Politics & Social Sciences

For 3,000 years, mankind has grappled with fundamental questions about life. What is real? Who or what is God? When is it legitimate for one person to have power over others? What is justice? Beauty? This 84-lecture, 12-professor tour of Western philosophical tradition covers more than 60 of history's greatest minds and brings you a comprehensive survey of the history of Western philosophy from its origins in classical Greece to the present.

Great Expectations by Charles Dickens is a timeless tale of ambition, love, and self-discovery. Set in Victorian England, the story follows the journey of Pip, an orphan raised by his harsh sister and her kind husband, Joe Gargery. Pip’s life takes an extraordinary turn when he aids an escaped convict, Magwitch, and later becomes entangled with the enigmatic Miss Havisham and her beautiful but cold-hearted ward, Estella. Consumed by his desire to rise above his humble beginnings, Pip dreams of becoming a gentleman worthy of Estella’s love.As Pip navigates his newfound wealth and status, he...

In Quarterly Essay 46 Laura Tingle shows that the answer goes to something deep in Australian culture: our great expectations of government. Since the deregulation era of the 1980s, Tingle shows, governments can do less, but we wish they could do more. From Hawke to Gillard, each prime minister has grappled with this dilemma. Keating sought to change expectations, Howard to feed a culture of entitlement, Rudd to reconceive the federation. Through all of this, and back to our origins, runs an almost childlike sense of the government as saviour and provider.

A provocative, progressive rejoinder to the status quo, from the perspective of a disrupter and global leader in the museum world. The challenge to transform museums is unapologetically real and complicated. But everything we learn about reconciliation, science and biodiversity, climate change, and sustainability gives us the confidence and freedom to break through the conventions of the past. Each essay in this collection emphasises key features that are driving change in museums, such as globalization, society, authenticity, and technology.

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