Dr John Caroll
University of Melbourne Alumnus

Dr John Carroll is Reader in Sociology at La Trobe University in Melbourne. He has degrees in mathematics, economics and sociology from the universities of Melbourne and Cambridge. His recent books include Humanism-the Wreck of Western Culture (1993), Ego and Soul-the Modern West in Search of Meaning (1998) and The Western Dreaming (2001).

He has edited Intruders in the Bush-the Australian Quest for Identity (1982, 1992) and together with Robert Manne, Shutdown-the Failure of Economic Rationalism (1992).

John Carroll is also a frequent writer of essays and newspaper articles. He delivered one of the Alfred Deakin Federation Lectures in 2001. His work focuses on modern Western society, and in particular on the forces that alternatively hold it together and press towards disintegration.

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