Hegel 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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Main Authors: Robertson, Neil G. (Editor), Brandes, Daniel (Assistant professor of humanities) (Author), Burbidge, John W., 1936- (Author), Cooper, Barry, 1943- (Author), Dodd, Susan, 1966- (Editor), Hoff, Shannon (Author), Kierans, Kenneth (Author), MacGregor, David, 1943- (Author), Nicholson, Graeme (Author), Russon, John, 1960- (Author), Sibley, Robert C. (Robert Cameron), 1951- (Author), Taylor, Charles, 1931- (Author), Trott, Elizabeth (Elizabeth Anne) (Author), Vernon, Jim (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, 2018.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1 Introduction: Unity of Opposites? Hegel and Canada / Susan M. Dodd Dodd, Susan M. 3
  • Part 1 Hegel and Canadian Political Philosophy
  • 2 Hegel in Canada / John Burbidge Burbidge, John 51
  • 3 Jewish and Post-Christian Interpretations of Hegel: Emil Fackenheim and Henry S. Harris / George di Giovanni Giovanni, George di 58
  • 4 Fackenheim on Self-Making, Divine and Human / Daniel Brandes Brandes, Daniel 76
  • 5 Conscience, Religion, and Multiculturalism: A Canadian Hegel / John Russon Russon, John 88
  • 6 Conquering Finitude: Towards a Renewed Hegelian Middle / Jim Vernon Vernon, Jim 100
  • 7 Hegel's Philosophy of Mind / Charles Taylor Taylor, Charles 123
  • 8 Negativity: Charles Taylor, Hegel, and the Problem of Modern Freedom / Kenneth Kierans Kierans, Kenneth 144
  • Part 2 Hegel in Canadian Politics
  • 9 Early Canadian Political Culture: Hegelian Adaptations in John Watson / Elizabeth Trott Trott, Elizabeth 163
  • 10 Idealism and Empire: John Watson, Michael Ignatieff, and the Moral Warrant for "Liberal Imperialism" / Robert C. Sibley Sibley, Robert C. 198
  • 11 Beyond "Hegel's Time": Made in the USA, Not Available in Canada / David MacGregor MacGregor, David 215
  • 12 Freedom and the Tradition: George Grant, James Doull, and the Character of Modernity / Neil G. Robertson Robertson, Neil G. 243
  • 13 Grant, Hegel, and the "Impossibility of Canada" / Robert C. Sibley Sibley, Robert C. 275
  • 14 Hegel and Canada's Constitution / Graeme Nicholson Nicholson, Graeme 294
  • 15 Hegel's Laurentian Fragments / Barry Cooper Cooper, Barry 311
  • 16 Hegel and the Possibility of Intercultural Criticism / Shannon Hoff Hoff, Shannon 342
  • 17 Conclusion: Canada and the Unity of Opposites? / Neil G. Robertson Robertson, Neil G. 368.