Undiscovered Country
Subtitle: Essays in Canadian Intellectual Culture
Publisher: Athabasca University Press; UBC Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781927356326
Subjects: Political culture; Intellectuals; Canada, intellectual life; Canada, civilization
Description: In this sequence of essays, Ian 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.