Winner, 2009 Victorian Premier's Literary AwardsThe Golden Bird brings together the best of Robert Adamson's work from the last four decades, as well as many superb new poems. Selected and arranged by the author, it provides an accessible introduction to Australia's foremost lyric poet and an insight into the recurring themes that have shaped his remarkable body of work.Shortlisted, 2009 Age Book of the Year Awards‘Robert Adamson is one of...

Fichte by Robert Adamson is a philosophical study of Johann Gottlieb Fichte, one of the key figures in German Idealism. The book offers a clear and structured examination of Fichte's ideas, placing them within the broader development of modern philosophy and tracing their influence on later thinkers. Adamson explores Fichte's central philosophical concepts, including the nature of self-consciousness, the role of the "I" in constructing reality, and the relationship between individual freed...

In "Fichte," Robert Adamson embarks on a profound exploration of Johann Gottlieb Fichte's philosophical contributions, notably his attempts to reconcile German idealism with the complexities of human experience. Adamson's analytical approach delves into the intricacies of Fichte's doctrines, employing a clear and engaging literary style that balances rigor with accessibility. The book situates Fichte within the broader context of Enlightenment thought, demonstrating how his ideas challenge...

Robert Adamson has been nourished for much of his life by Australia's Hawkesbury River. His poetry praises nature – red in tooth and claw – and celebrates existence as a mythological quest. Net Needle is his first new collection to be published in Britain since Reading the River: Selected Poems (2004) and The Kingfisher's Soul (2009).Net Needle brings together the presiding influences of Adamson's life, early and late. He casts an affectionate ey...

The final collection from the award-winning 'poet of the Hawkesbury River'In the old days I used to think artThat was purely imagined could fly higherThan anything real. Now I feel a small flutteringBird in my own pulse, a connection to the sky.--from 'The Kingfisher's Soul'In the last year of his life, with the help of friend and poet Devin Johnston, Robert Adamson put together a selection...

Imagine a massive computer complex in the future from where you explore endless worlds and repeatedly live an entire life anywhere and at any time of your choosing.Skyler Anderson is a handsome young tour guide sailing the Napali Coast in Kauai. One day, a mysterious, inexplicable rainbow leads him on a journey where he encounters a team of software engineers and scientists secretly working on a solution for interstellar flight.He teams up with a beautiful astronomer and fi...

In "Fichte," Robert Adamson presents a comprehensive and insightful exploration of the philosophy of Johann Gottlieb Fichte, one of the pivotal figures in German Idealism. Adamson employs a rigorous analytical style, interweaving Fichte's theoretical constructs with historical context, analyzing both his contributions to idealism and the broader implications of his work. The text navigates through Fichte's transcendental idealism, ethical theory, and his perspective on self-consciousness, ...

Robert Adamson's Fichte is a compact yet penetrating study of Johann Gottlieb Fichte's philosophy, placing the Wissenschaftslehre within the turbulent intellectual aftermath of Kant. Written in the lucid, disciplined prose of late Victorian philosophical scholarship, the book combines exposition, biography, and critical interpretation. Adamson attends to Fichte's central claims about self-consciousness, moral freedom, and the activity of the ego, while situating them in the broader movemen...

BASE: The Edge of RealityImagine a future from where you explore endless worlds and repeatedly live an entire life anywhere and at any time of your choosing.Skyler Anderson is a handsome young tour guide sailing the Napali Coast in Kauai. One day, a mysterious, inexplicable rainbow leads him on a journey where he encounters a team of software engineers and scientists secretly working on a solution for interstellar flight.He teams up with a beautiful...

An attractive and intriguing female from a distant advanced world tells James Ripley that he is not human; he's a hybrid of their two species, and the Earth is doomed. James must observe and record the last days of his endangered planet. An epic struggle ensues because of James' love for Earth and the alien's unwillingness to interfere.A thrilling plot, an epic romance, and an adventure that spans worlds. Not From Earth takes you on a journey through time and space, from the Moon L...

"A passionate, humane intelligence addressing itself to the fundamental problem of how the mind operates." — NewsweekConsidered by many to be Hannah Arendt's greatest work, published as she neared the end of her life, The Life of the Mind investigates thought itself, as it exists in contemplative life. In a shift from her previous writings, most of which focus on the world outside the mind, this work was planned as three volumes that would explore ...

Philosophy may be said to contain the principles of the rational cognition that concepts afford us of things (not merely, as with logic, the principles of the form of thought in general irrespective of the objects), and, thus interpreted, the course, usually adopted, of dividing it into theoretical and practical is perfectly sound. But this makes imperative a specific distinction on the part of the concepts by which the principles of this rational cognition get their object assigned to the...