Canadian conservative political thought / edited by Lee Trepanier and Richard Avramenko.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Trepanier, Lee, 1972- editor.

Avramenko, Richard, editor.

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Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Conservatism--Canada--History.

Conservatism.

Canada--Politics and government.

Canada.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 278 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.

Biography/History:

Richard Avramenko is Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of Courage: The Politics of Life and Limb (2011), and has co-edited books on Friendship and Politics (2008), Dostoevsky's Political Thought (2013), and Aristocratic Souls in Democratic Times (2018). Lee Trepanier isProfessor of Political Science at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. He is theauthor and editor of several books and the editor of Lexington Books series Politics, Literature, and Film.

Contents:

"Little platoons and ancient traditions" : Edmund Burke's critique of imperialism and contemporary North American Indigenous anti-colonialism / Brian T. Thorn

Praying alone : Tocqueville on the present state and probable future of Quebec / Richard Avramenko and Noah Stengl

John Strachan's loyalist political thought : Tocqueville's "aristocratic mores without aristocrats" / Jeremy Geddert

The sacred temple of truth : Thomas D'Arcy McGee's civic nationalism / David Livingstone

Canadian conservativism and national developmentalism : Sir John A. Macdonald's Hamiltonian persuasion / Sean Speer and Ben Woodfinden

The high Tory conservatism of Eugene Forsey and John Farthing / Tyler Chamberlain

Globalist nihilism, liberal relativism, and tutorialist statecraft : a critique of Janet Ajzenstat's Canadian political philosophy / Colin D. Pearce

Ajzenstat versus the oligarch / Travis D. Smith

Charles Taylor's interculturalism and the crisis of liberalism / David Tabchnick

"Even more than international" : Brock Chisholm and the origins of Canadian globalist thought / Ian Dowbiggin

Marshall McLuhan : Canadian political philosophy for the digital age / Christopher S. Morrissey

History as progress or reversal? : the mythical prognostications of Kojève and McLuhan / Grant Havers

George Grant, time, and eternity / Colin Cordner

Of homesteaders and Orangemen : a archeology of Western Canadian political identity / Richard Avramenko and Noah Stengl

Globalization through rose-tinted glasses : Schitt's Creek and the power of civic virtue / Mary Craig and Sara MacDonald

Sources for renewal for Canadian conservatism / Lee Trepanier.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 28, 2023).

Other Format:

Print version: Canadian conservative political thought

ISBN:

9781000858884

100085888X

9781000858839

1000858839

Publisher Number:

40031663881

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