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Record Nr.

UNINA9910810175403321

Autore

Ajzenstat Janet <1936->

Titolo

The once and future Canadian democracy : an essay in political thought / / Janet Ajzenstat

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal ; ; Ithaca : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , 2003

©2003

ISBN

1-282-86166-2

9786612861666

0-7735-7168-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource  (x, 192 pages)

Disciplina

320.971

Soggetti

Democracy - Canada

Political culture - Canada

Political participation - Canada

Démocratie - Canada

Canada Politics and government

Canada Politique et gouvernement

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [149]-188) and index.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""PART ONE Liberals and Romantics""; ""1 Prenez Garde!""; ""2 Beyond Right-Centre-Left""; ""3 The Evil Futures""; ""PART TWO Getting to Democracy""; ""4 What Romantics Say""; ""5 Are We There Yet? Liberal Arguments""; ""6 Why Historians Can't Put a Date to Democracy""; ""7 What Did the Fathers Say?""; ""8 The Monarchical Element""; ""9 Parliament: The Talking Shop""; ""PART THREE Bringing in the Future""; ""10 Last Train from Right-Centre-Left""; ""11 Romantic Ideas: George Grant""; ""12 Romance in a Democratic Clime"" ""13 The Romantic Artist in Her Lonely Garret""""14 The Three Deaths of the Canadian Constitution""; ""Sources""; ""Index""

Sommario/riassunto

To revitalize politics we need to abandon the idea that ideologies evolve from "right" to "left", from conservatism to socialism, and look at our political differences in terms of the distinction, more familiar in the arts, between classicism and romanticism. She argues that by abandoning our current modes of debate and rediscovering the



Enlightenment liberalism that is an enduring part of our political tradition we will help to recreate Canada as a place of debate on fundamentals, not one in which a monolithic definition of identity answers all questions in advance.