Screen LibraryHegel and Canada : unity of opposites? /
"Hegel has had a remarkable, yet largely unremarked, role in Canada's intellectual development. In the last half of the twentieth-century, as Canada was coming to define itself in the wake of World War Two, some of Canada's most thoughtful scholars turned to the work of G.W.F. Hegel f...
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University of Toronto Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Toronto : |
| Publication Dates: | [2018] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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"Hegel has had a remarkable, yet largely unremarked, role in Canada's intellectual development. In the last half of the twentieth-century, as Canada was coming to define itself in the wake of World War Two, some of Canada's most thoughtful scholars turned to the work of G.W.F. Hegel for insight. Hegel and Canada is a collection of essays that analyses the real, but under-recognized, role Hegel has played in the intellectual and political development of Canada. The volume focuses on the generation of Canadian scholars who emerged after World War Two: James Doull, Emil Fackenheim, George Grant, Henry S. Harris, and Charles Taylor. These thinkers offer a uniquely Canadian view of Hegel's writings, and, correspondingly, of possible relations between situated community and rational law. Hegel provided a unique intellectual resource for thinking through the complex and opposing aspects that characterize Canada. The volume brings together key scholars from each of these five schools of Canadian Hegel studies and provides a richly nuanced account of the intellectually significant connection of Hegel and Canada."-- |
| Item Description: | Contributors: Daniel Brandes, John Burbidge, Barry Cooper, George di Giovanni, Susan M. Dodd, Shannon Hoff, Kenneth Kierans, David MacGregor, Graeme Nicholson, Neil G. Robertson, John Russon, Robert C. Sibley, Charles Taylor, Elizabeth Trott, Jim Vernon. |
| Carrier Form: | x, 390 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781442644472 1442644478 |
| Index Number: | B982 |
| CLC: | B516.35 |
| Call Number: | B516.35/H462-25 |
| Contents: | Introduction: Unity of opposites? Hegel and Canada / Susan Dodd -- Hegel in Canada / John Burbidge -- Jewish and post-Christian interpretations of Hegel: Emil Fackenheim and Henry S. Harris / George di Giovanni -- Fackenheim on self-making, divine and human / Daniel Brandes -- Conscience, religion, and multiculturalism: a Canadian Hegel / John Russon -- Conquering finitude: towards a renewed Hegelian middle / Jim Vernon -- Hegel's theory of mind / Charles Taylor -- Negativity: Charles Taylor, Hegel and the problem of modern freedom / Kenneth Kierans -- Early Canadian political culture: Hegelian adaptations and John Watson / Elizabeth Trott -- Idealism and empire: John Watson, Michael Ignatieff and the moral warrant for "liberal imperialism" / Robert C. Sibley -- Beyond 'Hegel's time': made in the USA. Not available in Canada / David MacGregor -- Freedom and the tradition: George Grant, James Doull and the character of modernity / Neil Robertson -- Grant, Hegel and the "impossibility of Canada" / Robert Sibley -- Hegel and Canada's constitution / Graeme Nicholson -- Hegel's Laurentian fragments / Barry Cooper -- Hegel and the challenges of cross-cultural feminism / Shannon Hoff -- Conclusion: Canada and the unity of opposites? / Neil Robertson. |