Books by Damien Freeman

In this volume, twelve essayists, including Senator Amanda Stoker and the ABC’s Scott Stephens, respond to Overcoming Political Tribalism, an address delivered by Rowan Williams as the third PM Glynn Lecture on Religion, Law and Public Life. The collection offers a number of perspectives on Williams’s central claim that moving beyond political tribalism requires the building of a culture in which perspectives can interact and interrogate one another and themselves.A KAPUNDA PRESS TITLE“beyond political tribalism lie a deeper literacy about our histories, a commitment to identifying the grammar of a common language, and the work of negotiating a shared future by looking for solutions that have a degree of durability and credibility even if they are no-one’s ideal.”– Rowan Williams   Chapters Include: Foreword by Margaret BeazleyIntroduction by Damien Freeman  Third PM Glynn Lecture on Religion, Law and Public LifeOvercoming political tribalism -- Rowan Williams Responding to Rowan Williams1. The reasonable poet and the clamour of the crowd -- Nigel Zimmermann 2. Overcoming intellectual fragility -- Amanda Stoker 3. Tribalism as anti-politics -- Ben Etherington 4. Are shared languages enough? -- Anthony Ekpo 5. Overcoming tribalist colonialism -- Cristina Lledo Gomez6. Mutual recognition -- Kerry Pinkstone 7. Orientalism, learning and tribalist violence -- Austin Wyatt 8. Digital tribalism -- Ethan Westwood 9. Defending the ‘I’ in tribe -- Sandra C. Jones 10. Sustaining society -- Annette Pierdziwol 11. Two concepts of legitimacy -- M. A. Casey 12. Refusing the politics of despair -- Scott Stephens 

Damien Freeman develops a new theory of emotion that is suitable for resolving key questions in aesthetics. Freeman challenges the reader not only to consider how art engages with emotion, but how we should connect up our answers to questions concerning the nature and value of the experiences offered by works of art.