ISBN:
9781927356333
,
1927356334
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xi, 294 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Cultural dialectics 1915-8378
Series Statement:
Cultural dialectics
Parallel Title:
Available in another form Angus, Ian H. (Ian Henderson), 1949- Undiscovered country
DDC:
306.0971
Keywords:
Political culture Canada
;
Intellectuals Canada
;
Intellectuals
;
Political culture
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
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Civilization ; Philosophy
;
Intellectual life
;
Intellectuals
;
Political culture
;
POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
;
Canada Intellectual life
;
21st century
;
Canada Civilization
;
Philosophy
;
21st century
;
Canada Civilization 21st century
;
Philosophy
;
Canada Intellectual life 21st century
;
Canada
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
In this sequence of essays, 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 Canadian intellectual life. Through an analysis of the work of several prominent Canadian thinkers, among them Charles Taylor and C. B. Macpherson, Angus suggests that Hegelian frames of reference are inadequate, failing as they do to accommodate the fact of English Canada's continuing indebtedness to empire. The second part focuses on national identity and political culture, including the role of Canadian studies as a discipline, adapting its critical method to Canadian political culture. The first two parts culminate in the positive articulation, in Part 3, of author's own conception, one that is at once more utopian and more tragic than that of the first two parts. Here, Angus develops the concept of locative thought--the thinking of a people who have undergone dispossession, "of a people seeking its place and therefore of a people that has not yet found its place
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-285) and index. - Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (AU Press, viewed June 14, 2013)
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