Canadian intellectuals, the Tory tradition, and the challenge of modernity, 1939-1970
By: Philip Massolin.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 357
Subjects: Conservatism -- Canada -- History -- 20th century.; Conservatisme -- Canada -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.; Canada -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.; Canada -- Civilization -- 1945-; Canada -- Vie intellectuelle -- 20e siècle.; Canada -- Civilisation -- 1945-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-346) and index.
Table of contents: value: Science and technique : the critique of the technological consciousness; value: The modernization of higher learning in Canada I; value: The modernization of higher learning in Canada II : academia after the war; value: Battling the Philistines : the quest for culture in post-war Canada; value: The world we have lost : conservatism and the revolutionary world; value: Epilogue : the demise of the conservative-nationalist vision and the triumph of modernity.