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When Words Fail Us

Truth Beyond Time

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When Words Fail Us

By: Stan Grant
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When Words Fail Us: Truth beyond time, is the powerful new work by acclaimed author and broadcaster Stan Grant. In this deeply reflective and timely book, Stan Grant – one of Australia’s most prominent voices on identity, nationhood and belonging – explores the fragility of language and the profound importance of listening and silence in an age of distracted, angry noise and disembodied algorithms. A philosophical masterclass, Stan Grant draws on everyone from Plato to Simone Weil to Radiohead to reflect on how we struggle to speak to one another today in an essential book for our times – a meditation on truth beyond time, and an invitation to rediscover the grace of silence.

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The way the author delved into philosophy and poetry was so interesting. You do not read this to escape - rather to reflect and maybe come to terms.

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I do feel so much for Stan and the struggle he has had to endure and overcome as an indigenous journalist and personality. Clearly, his pain is seen in the work but at the same time these essays are afflicted by terms that pass their relevancy since we now live clearly in a postmodern society. One where truth and ethics and values are dependent on ideology and not on what is best for all. In the midst of our post truth, Stan brings forward issues of time, which has been a man made construct that was underpinned by Judeo-Christian concept of record keeping. His love for the modernist English philosophy seems to taint the deeper understanding of country of the dreaming.
I struggled to find connections to his views of solace on silence, tracing back history which is really only a propagandist reflection of what was allowed to be remembered. Wished that he spent more time sharing his view on country, his love for kinship and the continual connection to land and spirit.

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In the spirit of reconciliation, Audible acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.