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UNISA996210795603316 |
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Angus Ian H (Ian Henderson), <1949-> |
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The undiscovered country : essays in Canadian intellectual culture / / Ian Angus |
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Edmonton, Alberta : , : AU Press, , 2013 |
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©2013 |
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ISBN |
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1-927356-33-4 |
1-927356-34-2 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (306 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Collana |
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Cultural Dialectics, , 1915-8378 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Political culture - Canada |
Intellectuals - Canada |
Canada Intellectual life 21st century |
Canada Civilization 21st century Philosophy |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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The Instituting Polemos of English Canadian Culture --Charles Taylor's Account of Modernity --James Doull and the Philosophic Task of Our Time --C.B. Macpherson's Developmental Liberalism --Athens and Jerusalem? Philosophy and Religion in George Grant's Thought --National Identity as Solidarity --Winthrop Pickard Bell on the Idea of a Nation --Canadian Studies: Retrospect and Prospect --Gad Horowitz and the Political Culture of English Canada --Empire, Border, Place: A Critique of Hardt and Negri's Concept of Empire --The Difference Between Canadian and American Political Cultures Revisited --Philosophy, Culture, Critique -- Social Movements Versus the Global Neoliberal Regime --Continuing Dispossession: Clearances as a Literary and Philosophical Theme. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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