Contours of Canadian thought / / A. B. McKillop

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910787226403321
• Autore: McKillop A. B.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1987; ©1987
• ISBN: 1-4426-5586-0; 1-4426-2330-6
• Edizione: [2nd ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (176 p.)
• Collana: Heritage
• Disciplina: 303.4830971
• Soggetti: SCIENCE / Philosophy & Social Aspects; Electronic books.; Canada Intellectual life
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Nationalism, Identity, and Canadian Intellectual History -- 2 So Little on the Mind -- 3 Science, Humanism, and the Ontario University -- 4 Evolution, Ethnology, and Poetic Fancy -- 5 Science, Ethics, and 'Modern Thought' -- 6 The Research Ideal and the University of Toronto -- 7 The Idealist Legacy -- 8 Science, Authority, and the American Empire -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
• Sommario/riassunto: McKillop explores the thought of a number of English-Canadian thinkers from the 1860s to the 1920s, decades that saw Canada's entry into the modern age.