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The electronic book has
arrived
Amazon.com recently announced that sales for ebooks were for the first time
slightly ahead of hard copy book sales... read on
My author's page on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/author/gerardcharleswilson
Seeking the
Divine Spark:
A Satire in the Style of Evelyn Waugh
Gerard Charles Wilson
2011 revised edition now available on Amazon Kindle ebook
$3.95
This is a novel in the style of Evelyn Waugh's early satires. It satirises the way the media, lawyers and promoters of a gay lifestyle deal with clerical sexual abuse. It is a tale of outrageous hypocrisy that will sometimes make you laugh, sometimes cringe, and sometimes leave you appalled, but will always be 'glittering' in its satire, as one reviewer put it. For those who like a hard edge to their stories, this has it.
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eBook edition on Amazon go to:
HERE
The Castle of Heavenly Bliss
Gerard Charles Wilson
2011 revised edition now available on Amazon Kindle ebook
$3.95
A tender love story and a gripping ideological and religious mystery. The first book in the Winterbine trilogy. If you like mysteries with a difference this and the following book are the stories for you.
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In This Vale of Tears
Gerard Charles Wilson
eBook 2011edition now available on Amazon Kindle
$3.95
A religious mystery and one person's heart-rending conflict between eros and agape. The second book in the Winterbine trilogy following The Castle of Heavenly Bliss:
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Coming titles
Me and Pete: Recalling a Fifties Childhood
Gerard Charles Wilson
Due mid-2012 paperback and Kindle edition
The 1950s, as those who lived through them would know,
were so different from the first decade of the new century that they now
seem like another world - a world of social and moral values directly
opposed to those of the
present. In the social atmosphere of today it seems hard to imagine that it
was a coherent social and moral world. The author, a pretty ordinary fifties
boy with a very naughty streak, looks back on those years, telling the story
not so much about himself as about the world in which he grew up. Among
other things, he seeks an explanation about why he maintained features of that
world, in particular his religious beliefs, when so many of his
contemporaries not only jettisoned it, but came to despise and feel ashamed
of what once was. These reflections are an important part of the reminiscences of the author and his
life-long best friend Pete.
Photo: Me (right) and Pete (left) on our
tricycles Christmas time 1949/50
Read the opening pages and see some photos
THE MEDIA OF THE REPUBLIC: A CASE STUDY IN MEDIA PREJUDICE
Gerard Charles Wilson
Coming late 2012 in Kindle edition $3.95
This will be a revision and updating of the first edition. Further information will be added in the coming weeks.
Information
about the first edition.
Reviews of the first edition:
John
Young, News Weekly
Sam Roggeveen,
Quadrant
Tony Abbott,
The Adelaide Review
THE TELECARD AFFAIR: A CASE STUDY IN MEDIA LOGIC
Gerard Charles Wilson
Coming late 2012 in Kindle edition $3.95
This will be a revision and updating of the first edition. Further information will be added in the coming weeks.
About the first edition
On 10 October 2000, the Canberra Times broke a story about the misuse of
Peter Reith’s government-funded telecard. The analysis of the media’s reporting of the Telecard Affair is
unrelenting, and targets some well-known media figures. This is a book to
secretly delight people who have been on the receiving end of the media’s
activity.
Information about the first edition.
Reviews of the first edition:
John Young,
News Weekly
R.J. Stove,
News Weekly
Jack Waterford (Editor-in-Chief of The
Canberra Times)
Gerard Charles Wilson replies to Jack Waterford
EDMUND BURKE: KNOWING AND REASONING IN POLITICS
Gerard Charles Wilson
This book is a reworking and refining of a masters thesis in philosophy: Natural Law Conservatism: The epistemological basis of the Political Philosophy of Edmund Burke. The following description will be adjusted shortly to reflect the new orientation of the work. Particular attention will be given to an analysis that is proper to the concept of human rights.
THE SUMMARY
In this book I aim to explain Edmund Burke's ideas on the nature of
reasoning and to isolate a set of epistemological principles by
undertaking a detailed exposition of his writings and speeches.
Burke was an eighteenth century English politician who was a foremost actor in the major political issues of his time. I intend to show, first, that in order to justify his political position Burke fell back on a coherent set of moral and political principles whose underpinning was an understanding of the classical tradition of Natural Law and, second, that he set these principles within a unifying epistemological framework inseparable from that understanding.
The project will be presented in four parts. Part One will serve as an introduction to the controversy about the claim that a Burkean philosophy exists. In addition to surveying various views about Burke’s alleged political philosophy, I will look briefly at the recent scholarship on eighteenth century natural law and the methodology proposed by the recent work on the historiography of eighteenth century political discourse. Part Two will be an examination of the arguments running through a number of pamphlets and speeches dealing with the major issues of Burke’s political career. This examination is designed to isolate key features of Burke’s political and moral vision and its connection with a natural law view. Part Three will use Burke’s material on the French Revolution and Jacobinism to bind together the account of his fundamental moral and political principles and to show how his concept of obligation arises from this. In Part Four I will attempt to show how Burke’s moral vision is unified by an implied epistemological scheme that delineates the possibility, the acquisition, the ratification, the maintenance, the revision and correction of moral knowledge. I will propose that Burke’s epistemology can be seen as forming a ‘contextual’ basis of knowing and reasoning. An important distinction will be made between a contextual epistemology and an atomised epistemology.