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Abstract: 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. - Aurora

Contents: Part I The dominant Hegelianism of Canadian intellectual life. -- 1 Introduction: The Instituting Polemos of English Canadian Culture -- 2 Charles Taylor's Account of Modernity -- 3 James Doull and the Philosophic Task of Our Time -- 4 C.B. Macpherson's Developmental Liberalism -- 5 Athens and Jerusalem? Philosophy and Religion in George Grant's Thought. Part II Is Canada a nation? -- 6 Introduction: National Identity as Solidarity -- 7 Winthrop Pickard Bell on the Idea of a Nation -- 8 Canadian Studies: Retrospect and Prospect -- 9 Gad Horowitz and the Political Culture of English Canada -- 10 Empire, Border, Place: A Critique of Hardt and Negri's Concept of Empire -- 11 The Difference Between Canadian and American Political Cultures Revisited. Part III Locative thought. -- 12 Introduction: Philosophy, Culture, Critique -- 13 Social Movements Versus the Global Neoliberal Regime -- 14 Continuing Dispossession: Clearances as a Literary and Philosophical Theme. APPENDIX 1 Jean-Philippe Warren, "Are Multiple Nations the Solution? An Interview with Ian Angus" -- Appendix 2 Bob Hanke, "Conversation on the University: An Interview with Ian Angus."

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