Northern Spirits: John Watson, George Grant, and Charles Taylor - Appropriations of Hegelian Political Thought

Robert C. Sibley

Published by McGill-Queen's University Press 2008

Northern Spirits

John Watson, George Grant, and Charles Taylor - Appropriations of Hegelian Political Thought

Robert C. Sibley

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780773574991

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Canadians have devoted considerable thought to Hegel - a proposition born out by the work of John Watson, George Grant, and Charles Taylor, three major Canadian political philosophers of the last century. In Northern Spirits, Robert Sibley examines how Watson, Grant, and Taylor found in Hegel the theoretical tools needed to respond to Canada's uncertain existence.

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Sibley Robert C. :

Robert Sibley, a senior writer with the Ottawa Citizen, has a Ph.D in political science from Carleton University.Robert Sibley, a senior writer with the Ottawa Citizen, has a Ph.D in political science from Carleton University.

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Front Matter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Spirit in Canada Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
Hegel and the Spirit of Reconciliation
Reconciliation, Freedom, and the State Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Spirit and Sittlichkeit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	20
The Dialectic of Self and State Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	29
John Watson and the Spirit of Empire
Idealism and Imperialism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	41
Watson’s Political Problem: The Individual and the State Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	48
Watson’s History of Universal Reason Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	59
The State in Question: Hobbes, Rousseau, and Hegel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
Watson’s Theory of Relative Sovereignty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	76
Watson contra the British and American Hegelians Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	86
Watson’s Imperial Spirit Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	101
George Grant and the Spirit of Tyranny
Canada’s “Fate” and the Worship of History Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
Hegel’s Theology of Glory Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	128
The “Mistake” of Christianity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	138
The “Fate” of North America Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	149
Trudeau and the Betrayals of the Bureaucrats Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	158
Philosophy, Tyranny, and the “End” of Canada Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	168
Charles Taylor and the Spirit of Community
Recognition and the “Saving” of Modernity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
A Philosophical History of Recognition Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
Expressivism and the Ethic of Authenticity Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Herder and the “Measure” of Expressivism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
Freedom, Community, State: Hegel contra Taylor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	216
Quebec, Trudeau, and the Crisis of Canada Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	224
Illiberal Strands in Taylor’s Thought Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	239
Northern Spirits - an Iterative Conclusion
Taylor’s Tale of Multiculturalism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
Grant and the Conundrum of Canada Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	271
Watson and the Return to Empire Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	281
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	369
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	389

Language: English
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 408

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Published: February 8, 2008
ISBN: 9780773574991