Border Within: National Identity, Cultural Plurality, and Wilderness

Ian Angus

Published by McGill-Queen's University Press 1997

Border Within

National Identity, Cultural Plurality, and Wilderness

Ian Angus

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780773566767

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A Border Within addresses the question of English Canadian identity by exploring whether a plurality of discourses can lead to other than a fragmented society. Ian Angus examines the relationship between globalizing social movements and the particularities of identity politics by extending the theories on identity of Harold Innis and George Grant, two seminal figures in Canadian political philosophy, to develop a philosophy applicable to the contemporary social issues of multiculturalism and environmentalism.

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"An important and timely intervention into the public realm, A Border Within offers serious solutions to current questions of national identity, social movements, and the 'homelessness' of late modernity, both in the current Canadian context as well as elsewhere. It is a most ambitious affirmation of the belief in philosophy's ability to address issues central to ordinary human concerns." Michael Dorland, School of Journalism and Communication, Carleton University

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Front Matter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
The Possibility of Public Philosophy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
The Social Identity of English Canada Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	11
Harold Innis’s Dependency Critique of European Civilization Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	48
George Grant’s Critique of Technological Civilization Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
Maintaining the Border Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	105
Multiculturalism as a Social Ideal Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
An Ecological Relation to the World Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	170
Conclusion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	205
Missing Links in Canadian Theoretical Discourse Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
Conflicting Sovereignties Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
For a Canadian Philosophy Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	230
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	265

Language: English
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Audience: College/higher education;Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 280

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Published: May 28, 1997
ISBN: 9780773566767