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Format:
Paperback
380 pp.
8.7" x 5.7"

ISBN-13:
9780195414486

Copyright Year:
2001

Imprint: OUP Canada


Canadian Political Philosophy

Contemporary Reflections

Edited by Ronald Beiner and Wayne Norman

The essays collected in Canadian Political Philosophy reflect a broad range of contemporary political and philosophical issues: liberalism and citizenship; equality, justice, and gender; minority rights, multiculturalism, and identity; nationalism and self-determination; and finally, topics in the history of political philosophy.

Readership : Upper-level courses in Canadian Political Theory and Philosophy found in both Political Science and Philosophy departments.

Introduction
Part I: Rethinking Liberalism and Citizenship
1. Joseph H. Carens: Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and Immigration: False Dichotomies and Shifting Presuppositions
2. James Tully: Democracy and Globalization: A Defeasible Sketch
3. Simone Chambers: New Constitutionalism: Democracy, Habermas, and Canadian Exceptionalism
4. Daniel M. Weinstock: Saving Democracy from Deliberation
5. Eamonn Callan: Self-Defeating Political Education
Part II: Equality, Justice and Gender
6. G.A. Cohen: History, Ethics, and Marxism
7. Christine Sypnowich: Egalitarianism Renewed
8. Jennifer Nedelsky: A Relational Approach to Citizenship
9. Ingrid Makus: Birth, Maternity, Citizenship: Some Reflections
Part III: Minority Rights, Multiculturalism and Identity
10. Will Kymlicka: The New Debate over Minority Rights
11. Margaret Moore: Liberal Nationalism and Multiculturalism
12. Denise Reaume: Legal Multiculturalism From the Bottom Up
13. Stephen L. Newman: What Not to Do About Hate Speech: An Argument Against Censorship
14. Melissa S. Williams: Toleration, Canadian Style: Reflections of a Yankee-Canadian
15. Clifford Orwin: Charles Taylor's Pedagogy of Recognition
Part IV: Nationalism and Self-Determination
16. Dominique Leydet: Lifeboat
17. William James Booth: Communities of Memory
18. Philip Resnick: Civic and Ethnic Nationalism: Lessons from the Canadian Case
19. Guy Laforest: The True Nature of Sovereignty: Reply to My Critics Concerning Trudeau and the End of a Canadian Dream
20. Stephane Dion: The Supreme Court's Reference on Unilateral Secession: A Turning Point in Canadian History
21. Dale Turner: Vision: Towards an Understanding of Aboriginal Sovereignty
Part V: In Dialogue with the History of Political Philosophy
22. Thomas L. Pangle: The Platonic Challenge to the Modern Idea of the Public Intellectual
23. Arthur Ripstein: Coercion and Disagreement
24. Edward Andrew: Liberalism and Moral Subjectivism
25. Barry Cooper: Weaving a Work
26. Charles Taylor: The Immanent Counter-Enlightenment

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Ronald Beiner is at University of Toronto. Wayne Norman is at University of British Columbia.

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Special Features

  • First text to effectively tackle the currency of Canadian political philosophy, bringing together some of the country's leading theorists.
  • A collection of key contemporary political theorists, who also happen to be Canadian
  • Wide-ranging, covering critical issues, particularly multiculturalism and minority rights, democracy,inclusion, and globalization
  • This is the first book to bring together significant contemporary Canadian theorists and to examine Canada's unique contribution to contemporary theory
  • Article form allows students to get a taste of a wide range of theorists over a wide range of issues