The Undiscovered Country: Essays in Canadian Intellectual Culture
In this sequence of essays, Ian Angus engages with themes of identity, power, and the nation as they emerge in contemporary English Canadian philosophical thought, seeking to prepare the groundwork for a critical theory of neoliberal globalization. The essays are organized into three parts. The open...
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| Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Κεφάλαιο βιβλίου |
| Γλώσσα: | Αγγλικά |
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Athabasca University Press
2013
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| Σειρά: | Cultural Dialectics
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| Διαθέσιμο Online: | DOAB: download the publication DOAB: description of the publication |
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| Περίληψη: | In this sequence of essays, Ian Angus engages with themes of identity, power, and the nation as they emerge in contemporary English Canadian philosophical thought, seeking to prepare the groundwork for a critical theory of neoliberal globalization. The essays are organized into three parts. The opening part offers a nuanced critique of the Hegelian confidence and progressivism that has come to dominate Canadian intellectual life. Through an analysis of the work of several prominent Canadian thinkers, among them Charles Taylor and C. B. Macpherson, Angus suggests that Hegelian frames of reference are inadequate, failing as they do to accommodate the fact of English Canada |
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| Φυσική περιγραφή: | 1 electronic resource (306 p.) |
| ISBN: | 9781927356333 9781926836485 9781927356326 |
| Πρόσβαση: | Open Access |