Footprints on Water
LKR 2,000.00
2 in stock
Weight | .250 kg |
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Dimensions | 20 × 13 cm |
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Format | Paperback |
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Pages | 220 |
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…in the office of a certain British administrator in the tropics there used to hang a notice to the public which read: “There’s no reason for it. It’s just our policy.” What a brilliant summation of the absence of any political philosophy in the British – and also of British arrogance!
W. T. Stace’s writings as a colonial civil servant in Ceylon reveal his lack of conviction about ruling over a subject race. In this publication, Bernd Pflug writes an incisive analysis of Stace both as a reluctant colonial and his transformation into a philosopher.