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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Main Author: Ian Angus (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Athabasca University Press 2013
Series:Cultural Dialectics
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Summary: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
Physical Description:1 electronic resource (306 p.)
ISBN:9781927356333
9781926836485
9781927356326
Access:Open Access