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‘From where will we draw the moral energy to stay true to justice?’

For more than three decades the incomparable voice of Raimond Gaita has been
summoning us to new conversations that deepen our understanding of what matters most to human life and awaken the sense of our common humanity. For Gaita, we are never  more fully alive than when we are fully present to one another in conversation.

In a time when modes of communication tend to superficiality and self-promotion, when
political debates are increasingly inured to lies and even violence, and the moral demands of dialogue give way to a torrent of competing monologues, Gaita’s invitation to rediscover what genuine conversation requires of us could not be more timely.

These collected writings at once invite us into that conversation and enact its severe
demands. Gaita asks us to confront the distinctive evil of genocide, to examine the true cost of the ‘War on Terror’, to interrogate what justice requires in response to Australia’s dispossession of its First Peoples, to understand our need for truth in politics, especially during war, to see what is at stake in the decline of the universities, to grasp what was lost during the Black Summer bushfires, and to reckon with the experience of the COVID-19 pandemic—when we learned, he writes, ‘how much we needed to touch and hold other people’.

Gaita’s astonishing range of concerns is held together by the consistency and unrelenting tenderness of his moral vision. To see the world through Gaita’s eyes is to discover, once again, what it means to love the world and to remain faithful to it. He tells us that an unconditional love of the world is the deepest form of hope and the truest source of our energies to honour the demands of justice. This is how we learn to be human.' (Publication summary)

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Works about this Work

Justice and Hope Andrew Hamilton , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: Eureka Street , 03 June vol. 34 no. 11 2024;

— Review of Justice and Hope : Essays, Lectures and Other Writings Raimond Gaita , 2023 selected work essay criticism
'Raimond Gaita, Justice and Hope: Essays, Lectures and Other writings, ed. Scott Stephens, Melbourne  University Press   The title of Raimond Gaita’s book is monumental. Justice and Hope are words to be capitalised and carved in stone over Courts and Parliaments. The solemnity invites us to believe that the place of Justice and Hope in the world is assured and undisputed.' (Introduction)
Gutsy Take on the State We’re In Peter Craven , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 3 February 2024; (p. 13)

— Review of Justice and Hope : Essays, Lectures and Other Writings Raimond Gaita , 2023 selected work essay criticism
y separately published work icon Raymond Gaita in Conversation Maria Tumarkin (interviewer), Mark Rubbo (interviewer), 2024 27438069 2024 single work podcast interview

'In this episode, a conversation recorded at the launch of Raimond Gaita’s Justice and Hope: Essays, Lectures and Other Writings.

'For more than three decades the incomparable voice of Raimond Gaita has been summoning us to new conversations that deepen our understanding of what matters most to human life and awaken the sense of our common humanity. For Gaita, we are never more fully alive than when we are fully present to one another in conversation.

'In a time when modes of communication tend to superficiality and self-promotion, when political debates are increasingly inured to lies and even violence, and the moral demands of dialogue give way to a torrent of competing monologues, Gaita's invitation to rediscover what genuine conversation requires of us could not be more timely.

'Gaita was joined in conversation by Maria Tumarkin.' (Production summary)

Gaita on Love : Notes from a Life of the Mind Frank Bongiorno , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , January - February no. 461 2024; (p. 12, 14)

— Review of Justice and Hope : Essays, Lectures and Other Writings Raimond Gaita , 2023 selected work essay criticism

'For a man many would regard as the very epitome of the type, Raimond Gaita seems rather hostile to the concept of the intellectual. It is ‘irredeemably mediocre’, he explains, inferior to the kinds of moral and political responsibility that attach to teacher or politician. Intellectuals are active in the public domain, grappling with ideas, culture, and politics, but they have often lacked independence of mind, he says, ‘because they never had it or because they sacrificed it to the cause’.' (Introduction)          

 

Gaita on Love : Notes from a Life of the Mind Frank Bongiorno , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: Australian Book Review , January - February no. 461 2024; (p. 12, 14)

— Review of Justice and Hope : Essays, Lectures and Other Writings Raimond Gaita , 2023 selected work essay criticism

'For a man many would regard as the very epitome of the type, Raimond Gaita seems rather hostile to the concept of the intellectual. It is ‘irredeemably mediocre’, he explains, inferior to the kinds of moral and political responsibility that attach to teacher or politician. Intellectuals are active in the public domain, grappling with ideas, culture, and politics, but they have often lacked independence of mind, he says, ‘because they never had it or because they sacrificed it to the cause’.' (Introduction)          

 

Gutsy Take on the State We’re In Peter Craven , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: The Weekend Australian , 3 February 2024; (p. 13)

— Review of Justice and Hope : Essays, Lectures and Other Writings Raimond Gaita , 2023 selected work essay criticism
Justice and Hope Andrew Hamilton , 2024 single work review
— Appears in: Eureka Street , 03 June vol. 34 no. 11 2024;

— Review of Justice and Hope : Essays, Lectures and Other Writings Raimond Gaita , 2023 selected work essay criticism
'Raimond Gaita, Justice and Hope: Essays, Lectures and Other writings, ed. Scott Stephens, Melbourne  University Press   The title of Raimond Gaita’s book is monumental. Justice and Hope are words to be capitalised and carved in stone over Courts and Parliaments. The solemnity invites us to believe that the place of Justice and Hope in the world is assured and undisputed.' (Introduction)
y separately published work icon Raymond Gaita in Conversation Maria Tumarkin (interviewer), Mark Rubbo (interviewer), 2024 27438069 2024 single work podcast interview

'In this episode, a conversation recorded at the launch of Raimond Gaita’s Justice and Hope: Essays, Lectures and Other Writings.

'For more than three decades the incomparable voice of Raimond Gaita has been summoning us to new conversations that deepen our understanding of what matters most to human life and awaken the sense of our common humanity. For Gaita, we are never more fully alive than when we are fully present to one another in conversation.

'In a time when modes of communication tend to superficiality and self-promotion, when political debates are increasingly inured to lies and even violence, and the moral demands of dialogue give way to a torrent of competing monologues, Gaita's invitation to rediscover what genuine conversation requires of us could not be more timely.

'Gaita was joined in conversation by Maria Tumarkin.' (Production summary)

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