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Reconciling the solitudes : essays on Canadian federalism and nationalism / Charles Taylor ; edited by Guy Laforest.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Taylor, Charles, 1931-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Federal government--Canada.
- Federal government.
- Nationalism--Canada.
- Nationalism.
- Canada--English-French relations.
- Canada.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 208 p. ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal ; Buffalo : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1993.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Taylor is one of the world's pre-eminent experts on Hegel and brings to his reflections on nationalism and federalism the fruits of a more universal philosophical discourse rooted in the Enlightenment and before. Its hallmarks are terms such as recognition, self-determination, atomism, and modernity. Notwithstanding his long involvement in philosophical reflections, Taylor has avoided the role of the disengaged intellectual, always remaining close to political action and debate in Canada. To his philosophical discourse, therefore, is added a sensitive knowledge of Quebec society from the vantage point of an English-speaking citizen with profound roots within it. Taylor suggests that it will be necessary to think in terms of deep diversity if Canada is to stay together in the twenty-first century. Eight of the essays, published between 1965 and 1992, are drawn from the Queen's Quarterly, edited scholarly books, a research study for the MacDonald Commission on Canada's Economic and Political Future, and an English translation of his submission to Quebec's Bélanger-Campeau Commission. The concluding paper was written specially for this volume.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Nationalism and the Political Intelligentsia: A Case Study
- A Canadian Future?
- Why Do Nations
- Alternative Futures
- Institutions in National Life
- The Tradition of a Situation
- The Stakes of Constitutional Reform
- Shared and Divergent Values
- Impediments to a Canadian Future
- Index
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-85658-8
- 9786612856587
- 0-7735-6423-3
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