04358nam 2200649 450 991080778720332120230306052216.01-4426-6217-41-4426-6216-610.3138/9781442662162(CKB)2550000001195320(EBL)3289730(SSID)ssj0001039542(PQKBManifestationID)12488377(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001039542(PQKBWorkID)10990647(PQKB)10810547(MiAaPQ)EBC4669808(DE-B1597)483083(OCoLC)1004872606(DE-B1597)9781442662162(MiAaPQ)EBC3289730(Au-PeEL)EBL4669808(CaPaEBR)ebr11256330(OCoLC)865475132(MdBmJHUP)musev2_106217(EXLCZ)99255000000119532020160920h20132013 uy 0engur|n|---|u||rtxtccrThe public intellectual in Canada /edited by Nelson WisemanToronto, [Ontario] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,2013.©20131 online resource (259 p.)Description based upon print version of record.1-4426-4526-1 1-4426-1339-4 Introduction / Nelson Wiseman (University of Toronto) -- Part I: What Are Public Intellectuals For? The Public Intellectual and the Democratic Conversation / Janice Gross Stein (University of Toronto) -- The Public Intellectual and Politics: Why Choices Matter / Hugh Segal (Chair of the Special Senate Committee on Anti-Terrorism) -- Public Thought and the Crisis of Underpopulation / Doug Saunders (Globe and Mail's European Bureau Chief) -- What Are Intellectuals For? A Modest Proposal in Dialogue Form / Mark Kingwell (University of Toronto).Part II: Who Are They? Public Intellectuals in Twentieth-Century Canada / Nelson Wiseman Le Devoir, Forum for the Exchange of Ideas -- / Gregory Baum (University of Toronto, McGill University) -- Quebec Public Intellectuals in Times of Crisis / Alain-G. Gagnon (Universite du Quebec a Montreal) -- Navigating Gendered Spaces: Women as Public Intellectuals / Sylvia Bashevkin (University of Toronto).Part III: On the Front Lines. A Political Scientist in Public Affairs / Tom Flanagan (University of Calgary) -- Personal Success vs. Public Failure: The Muting of Canada's Academic Intellectuals / Stephen Clarkson (University of Toronto) -- Polling for Democracy / Michael Adams (Marketing Research and Intelligence Association) -- A People's Intellectual / Maude Barlow (Council of Canadians, Blue Planet Project) -- Canadian Economists as Public Intellectuals / Pierre Fortin (Royal Society of Canada, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research) -- The Unbalanced Discussion of Aboriginal Policy / John Richards (Simon Fraser University) -- "Brave New Ethicists": A Cautionary Tale / Margaret Somerville (McGill Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law) Conclusion / Nelson Wiseman (University of Toronto)."The all-star cast of contributors in this collection is a truly impressive assembly. Many are widely know and will be familiar to the reader. All of them have influenced public affairs in Canada as doers as well as thinkers and they span the ideological spectrum. With them, we explore and examine the place of the public intellectual in the context of a rapidly changing and diverse Canadian society in an increasingly interdependent world. Contributors: Michael Adams, Maude Barlow, Sylvia Bashevkin, Gregory Baum, Stephen Clarkson, Tom Flanagan, Pierre Fortin, Alain-G. Gagnon, Mark Kingwell, John Richards, Doug Saunders, Hugh Segal, Margaret Somerville, Janice Gross Stein, Nelson Wiseman."--Page 4 of coverIntellectualsCanadaCanadaIntellectual lifeIntellectuals305.5/520971Wiseman Nelson, authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1612025Wiseman Nelson1946-MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910807787203321The public intellectual in Canada3940569UNINA