The Time of the Bedouin

296 Pages·2013·6.905 MB·English

by  Ian Dallas

THE TIME OF
THE BEDOUIN
on the politics of power
ALSO BY IAN DALLAS:
The Book of Strangers
The New Wagnerian
The Ten Symphonies of Gorka König
Three Plays - ‘The Face of Love’,
‘Statue of David’ and ‘Oedipus and Dionysus’
Collected Works (plays and prose)
Political Renewal
The Interim is Mine
The Engines of the Broken World
IAN DALLAS
THE TIME OF
THE BEDOUIN
on the politics of power
BUDGATE PRESS
© Ian Dallas 2006 and 2013
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First edition: Budgate Press 2006
This edition 2013
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Budgate Press
Postnet Suite 402
Constantia 7848
Cape Town
Republic of South Africa
Subject: Political Theory
ISBN: 978-0-620-465120
Printed by Lightning Source
CONTENTS
PART 1
I .......................................... 13
II ........................................ 45
III ........................................ 91
PART 2
1........................................ 121
II ...................................... 151
III ...................................... 175
IV ...................................... 197
V ...................................... 221
VI ...................................... 251
Postface........................... 291
Appendix......................... 293

to Dugald Stewart Dallas
with gratitude
for “my heritage, Which my dead
father did bequeathe to me.”
(Shakespeare)

ως ο ye κοίρανέων Sce^re στρατόν * οί 8' ayopijv8e
αΰτις εττεσσενοντο νέων άττο καί κλισιάων
ηχρ, ώς οτε κύμα πολνφλοίσβοι,ο θαλάσσης
ανγναλω μ&γάλω βρεμεταν> apapayei δε τε ττόρτος.
“And they streamed back again to the place of assembly
from their ships and their huts, with a roar like that of
the sounding sea, when the breakers crash on a wide
open shore, and the deep sea thunders.”
The Iliad, 2/207-210
(trans. Martin Hammond)