Canadian Political Philosophy

Author : Ronald Beiner,W. J. Norman
Publisher : Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110334294

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Canadian Political Philosophy by Ronald Beiner,W. J. Norman Pdf

Canadian theorists and philosophers are recognized internationally for their contributions to normative debates about citizenship, multiculturalism, and nationalism. The fact that some of these thinkers are better known abroad than they are at home, provided the impetus for Ronald Beiner andWayne Norman to bring together new essays in a unique, single volume.The essays collected in Canadian Political Philosophy reflect a broad range of contemporary political and philosophical issues: liberalism and citizenship; equality, justice, and gender; minority rights, multiculturalism, and identity; nationalism and self-determination; and finally, topics in thehistory of political philosophy.This edition documents the impact that canadian theorists are having in political philosophy debates and provides an outline of the themes around which Canadian theory is focused. Many of these themes arise out of a particular Canadian consciousness--for instance, constitutional crises havecultivated an interest in the nature of political membership--but are also emerging as themes in societies aroud the world. Canadian Political Philosophy demonstrates how contemporary Canadian theory is both a reflection of Canadian experience and an important voice contributiong to the world-widedebates in political philosophy.

Author : James Bickerton,Stephen Brooks,Alain-G. Gagnon
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2006-02-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780773576209

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Freedom, Equality, Community by James Bickerton,Stephen Brooks,Alain-G. Gagnon Pdf

Accounts of the work of six significant figures in Canadian political thought are used to examine key intellectual debates, including the national unity issue and Canada's relationship with the United States. James Bickerton, Stephen Brooks, and Alain Gagnon analyse the work and influence of George Grant, Harold Innis, Charles Taylor, and Pierre Trudeau, as well as two writers crucial to French-Canadian nationalism, André Laurendeau and Marcel Rioux. The authors look at the ways these individuals understood freedom, equality, and community and consider the impact they have had on Canadian political life.

Author : Lee Trepanier,Richard Avramenko
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2023-03-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000858884

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Canadian Conservative Political Thought by Lee Trepanier,Richard Avramenko Pdf

This book corrects an imbalance in Canadian political literature through offering a conservative account of Canadian political thought. Across 15 chronologically organized chapters, and with a mixture of established and rising scholars, the book offers an investigation of the defining features and characteristics of Canadian conservative political thought, asking what have Canadian conservative political thinkers and practitioners learned from other traditions and, in turn, what have they contributed to our understanding of conservative political thought today? Rather than its culmination, Canadian Conservative Political Thought will be the beginning of conservative political thought’s recovery and will spark debates and future research. The book will be a great resource for courses on Canadian politics, history, political philosophy and conservatism, Canadian Studies, and political theory.

Author : Robert Meynell
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011-05-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780773586635

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Canadian Idealism and the Philosophy of Freedom by Robert Meynell Pdf

Twentieth-century Canada fostered a range of great minds, but the country's diversity and wide range of academic fields have led to their ideas being portrayed as the work of isolated thinkers. Canadian Idealism and the Philosophy of Freedom contests this assumption by linking the works of C.B. Macpherson, George Grant, and Charles Taylor to demonstrate the presence of a Canadian intellectual tradition.

Author : Katherine Fierlbeck
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2006-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442604254

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Political Thought in Canada by Katherine Fierlbeck Pdf

What, if anything, makes Canada's political identity unique? Pollsters can measure values, but they cannot explain how these values arose over time, why they changed, or how people have attempted to make sense of them within a changing social and political environment. By examining the history of political ideas in Canada, we can better understand why Canada takes the shape that it does. In this book, Katherine Fierlbeck looks at the legacy of ideas taken from (or shaped in reaction to) the nations that have been most influential to Canada's development: the United Kingdom and the United States. The first section looks specifically at the nature of toryism, constitutional liberalism, and market liberalism. Then she examines the evolution of social justice in Canada. Does the country have, as J.S. Woodsworth hoped, a definitive "third way"? The final section focuses upon debates over cultural identity and minority rights. Contemporary political discussions in Canada are very much based upon the expressions of French-Canadian nationalism that have existed as long as, and perhaps even longer than, the country itself. How have these ideas influenced current thinking about culture and accommodation? The experiences;characterized by Canadian political thought also provide insight and ideas for nations around the world as their citizens struggle with similar questions. The political dynamics of the present are a product of how Canadians have viewed their country, or a vision of their country, in the past. These ideas of Canada, in history and in myth, provide a way of thinking about politics that may provoke and inspire Canadians—and others—to reflect upon their future.

Author : Hugh Donald Forbes
Publisher : Oxford University Press Canada
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Canada
ISBN : UOM:39076001314967

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Canadian Political Thought by Hugh Donald Forbes Pdf

Author : Nelson Wiseman
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774840613

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In Search of Canadian Political Culture by Nelson Wiseman Pdf

What do we really mean by phrases such as "western Canadian political culture," "the centrist political culture of Ontario," "Red Toryism in the Maritimes," or "Prairie socialism"? What historical, geographical, and sociological factors came into play as these cultures were forged? In this book, Nelson Wiseman addresses many such questions, offering new ways of conceiving Canadian political culture. The most thorough review of the national political ethos written in a generation, In Search of Canadian Political Culture offers a bottom-up, regional analysis that challenges how we think and write about Canada.

Author : Pierre Elliott Trudeau
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105215351417

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Approaches to Politics by Pierre Elliott Trudeau Pdf

"Society is made for man; if it serves him badly he is entitled to overthrow it" -Pierre Elliott Trudeau No man played a more prominent role in modern Canadian political life than Pierre Elliott Trudeau. He was loved, he was hated, but most of all, he mattered. Trudeau burst like a comet onto the federal political scene, becoming Canada's fifteenth prime minister in 1968. But as this collection of essays from the 1950s clearly shows, Trudeau had thought long and hard about the fundamental principles of government and politics before gaining the national spotlight. Approaches to Politics is an essential introduction both to the political philosophy of Pierre Trudeau and to the eternal principles underlying democracy-a book as relevant and readable today as when it was first published four decades ago. This edition includes a new foreword by noted historian Ramsay Cook, as well as Cook's original introductory essay and a prefatory note by Jacques Hebert.

Author : John Courtney,David Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 569 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2010-04-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780195335354

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The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Politics by John Courtney,David Smith Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Canadian Politics provides a comprehensive overview of the transformation that has occurred in Canadian politics since it acheived autonomy nearly a century ago, examining the institutions and processes of Canadian government and politics at the local, provincial and federal levels. It analyzes all aspects of the Canadian political system: the courts, elections, political parties, Parliament, the constitution, fiscal and political federalism, the diffusion of policies between regions, and various aspects of public policy.

Author : Alain Gagnon,James Bickerton
Publisher : Peterborough, Ont. : Broadview Press
Page : 674 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Political Science
ISBN : PSU:000017750073

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Canadian Politics by Alain Gagnon,James Bickerton Pdf

" The new, fourth, edition of Canadian Politics continues the work of earlier editions in offering a comprehensive introduction to Canadian government and politics by a widely recognized and highly respected group of political scientists, writing on subjects on which they are acknowledged experts. For this edition, the editors have reorganized the book into four sections: Part I: Citizenship, Identities, and Values; Part II: The Canadian State; Part III: Civil Society, Democracy, and Governance; and, Part IV: Globalizing Trends and International Pressures. The fourth section, comprised of five chapters, develops a new focus for this edition by examining the diverse and increasingly important influences of globalization on the Canadian polity and system of governance. Of the twenty-three chapters, those retained from earlier editions have been entirely revised and updated. This edition adds twelve new authors and eleven completely new chapters.

Author : Robert Meynell
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780773537989

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Canadian Idealism and the Philosophy of Freedom by Robert Meynell Pdf

An intriguing work that considers the shared tradition of Canadian political philosophy.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004495906

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A Question of Values by Anonim Pdf

This volume contains ten chapters, each of which takes up a different question in contemporary moral or political philosophy. The volume has three parts: meta-ethics, issues in freedom and autonomy, and contemporary political philosophy. In the meta-ethical section, the chapters address issues concerning acts and their value, the plausibility of aggregation and counting with respect to the value of human lives, and the role of moral character in causing and explaining moral behavior. In the second section, the chapters take up questions about the connection between moral imagination and a plausible account of integrity, the connection between autonomy and rights to property, and the difficulties facing internalist accounts of autonomy. In the final section, the chapters address issues concerning feminist critiques of Rawlsian liberalism, the limits of liberalism and communitarianism, the importance of understanding Rawls's social contract as a contract for institutions, and the morality of nationalist movements. These chapters reflect a cross-section of the issues concerning value that are of contemporary scholarly interest in Canada and the United States.

Author : James Bickerton,Alain Gagnon
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442601215

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Canadian Politics by James Bickerton,Alain Gagnon Pdf

The new fifth edition of Canadian Politics continues the work of earlier editions in offering a comprehensive introduction to Canadian government and politics by a widely recognized and highly respected group of political scientists writing about subjects on which they are acknowledged experts. For this edition, the editors have organized the book into four sections: Part I: Citizenship, Identities, and Values; Part II: Institutions; Part III: Democracy and Representation; and Part IV: Canada in the World. The fourth section develops a focus on the diverse and increasingly important influences of globalization on the Canadian polity, the environment, and the role of Canada in the world. Of the eighteen chapters, nine are completely new, and six new authors appear, including Martin Papillon on Aboriginal governments, Peter J. Stoett on Canadian international environmental policy, and Andrew F. Cooper on Afghanistan and Canadian foreign policy. The remaining chapters have been thoroughly revised and updated.

Author : John Grant
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774836500

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Lived Fictions by John Grant Pdf

The idea of political unity contains its own opposite, because a political community can never guarantee the equal status of all its members. The price of belonging is an entrenched social stratification within the political unit itself. This book explores how the desire for political unity generates a collective commitment to certain lived fictions – the citizen-state, the market economy, and so forth – that shape our understanding of political legitimacy and responsibility. Canada promises unity through democratic politics, reconciliation with Indigenous peoples, a welfare state, and a multicultural approach to cultural relations. John Grant documents the historical failure of these promises, elaborating the radical institutional and intellectual changes needed to overcome our lived fictions.

Author : David McGrane,Neil Hibbert
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442628434

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Applied Political Theory and Canadian Politics by David McGrane,Neil Hibbert Pdf

Bringing together political theorists and specialists in Canadian politics, Applied Political Theory and Canadian Politics combines conceptual frameworks from political theory and empirical evidence to offer fresh perspectives on political events in contemporary Canada. Examining complex and timely subjects such as equality, social justice, democracy, citizenship, and ethnic diversity, contributors present current and archival research supplemented with insights drawn from political theory to give readers a deep and nuanced understanding of increasingly pressing issues in Canadian society. For scholars and students seeking a work of political theory that is tangible, focused, and connected to the real world of everyday politics, Applied Political Theory and Canadian Politics will be an important resource, combining philosophical insights and empirical evidence to enhance our understanding of contemporary Canadian politics.