Northern spirits : John Watson, George Grant, and Charles Taylor : appropriations of Hegelian political thought /

Northern spirits : John Watson, George Grant, and Charles Taylor : appropriations of Hegelian political thought /

The recovery of Watson's thought is particularly valuable. Sibley shows that Watson, an internationally respected philosopher in the early twentieth century, discussed idealism and support for imperialism in ways that are particularly relevant in our new age of empire. A consideration of Grant&...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sibley, Robert C. 1951-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2008.
Subjects:
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, > 1770-1831 > Political and social views.
Watson, John, > 1847-1939 > Political and social views.
Grant, George Parkin, > 1918-1988 > Political and social views.
Taylor, Charles, > 1931- > Political and social views.
Political science > Canada > Philosophy.
Canada > Politics and government > Philosophy.
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Introduction: Spirit in Canada
  • pt. 1 Hegel and the Spirit of Reconciliation
  • 1. Reconciliation, Freedom, and the State
  • 2. Spirit and Sittlichkeit
  • 3. Dialectic of Self and State
  • pt. 2 John Watson and the Spirit of Empire
  • 4. Idealism and Imperialism
  • 5. Watson's Political Problem: The Individual and the State
  • 6. Watson's History of Universal Reason
  • 7. State in Question: Hobbes, Rousseau, and Hegel
  • 8. Watson's Theory of Relative Sovereignty
  • 9. Watson contra the British and American Hegelians
  • 10. Watson's Imperial Spirit
  • pt. 3 George Grant and the Spirit of Tyranny
  • 11. Canada's "Fate" and the Worship of History
  • 12. Hegel's Theology of Glory
  • 13. "Mistake" of Christianity
  • 14. "Fate" of North America
  • 15. Trudeau and the Betrayals of the Bureaucrats
  • 16. Philosophy, Tyranny, and the "End" of Canada
  • pt. 4 Charles Taylor and the Spirit of Community
  • 17. Recognition and the "Saving" of Modernity
  • 18. Philosophical History of Recognition
  • 19. Expressivism and the Ethic of Authenticity
  • 20. Herder and the "Measure" of Expressivism
  • 21. Freedom, Community, State: Hegel contra Taylor
  • 22. Quebec, Trudeau, and the Crisis of Canada
  • 23. Illiberal Strands in Taylor's Thought
  • pt. 5 Northern Spirits an Iterative Conclusion
  • 24. Taylor's Tale of Multiculturalism
  • 25. Grant and the Conundrum of Canada
  • 26. Watson and the Return to Empire.

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