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Peter Beilharz is Professor of Culture and Society at Curtin University and Professor of Critical Theory at Sichuan University. He is the author of more than a dozen books and a founding editor of the journal Thesis Eleven.
'As sociological data - as a record of how academic intellectuals at the turn of the century spent their time - Peter Beilharz's memoir is valuable enough; but it is also a searching exploration of his debt to one of the great social theorists of our age, Zygmunt Bauman.' J. M. Coetzee 'With Beilharz and Bauman as central performers, the tale told within these pages concerns how academic relationships are made and sustained either side of the internet revolution. It matters little, however, whether we know anything of our performers before the curtain raises - for upon this stage awaits a story of intellectual life fuelled by far more universal ideas of inspiration, admiration, labour, friendship, gain and loss.' Mark Davis, Director of the Bauman Institute for Critical Sociology, University of Leeds -- .
