A border within : national identity, cultural plurality, and wilderness / Ian Angus.
نوع المادة : نصالناشر:Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1997وصف:x, 268 pages ; 24 cmنوع المحتوى:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0773516530 (pbk)
- 9780773516533 (pbk)
- F1035.E53 A548 1997
نوع المادة | المكتبة الحالية | رقم الطلب | رقم النسخة | حالة | تاريخ الإستحقاق | الباركود | |
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كتاب | UAE Federation Library | مكتبة اتحاد الإمارات General Collection | المجموعات العامة | F1035.E53 A548 1997 (إستعراض الرف(يفتح أدناه)) | C.1 | Library Use Only | داخل المكتبة فقط | 30010000099146 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [235]-264) and index.
1. The Possibility of Public Philosophy -- 2. The Social Identity of English Canada -- 3. Harold Innis's Dependency Critique of European Civilization -- 4. George Grant's Critique of Technological Civilization -- 5. Maintaining the Border -- 6. Multiculturalism as a Social Ideal -- 7. An Ecological Relation to the World -- 8. Conclusion -- App. 1. Missing Links in Canadian Theoretical Discourse -- App. 2. Conflicting Sovereignties -- App. 3. For a Canadian Philosophy.
Border Within addresses the question of English Canadian identity by exploring how unity is possible in the presence of a plurality of discourses. Ian Angus examines the relationship between globalizing social movements and the particularities of identity politics by extending the theories of Harold Innis and George Grant.
Grant and Innis, argues Angus, provide a critique of homogenization that is the key to meeting the challenges of developing a new relationship with the natural world and of forging a new multicultural society.
Angus breaks down the superficial oppositions that have been the traditional touchstones of discussions of Canadian identity - the Garison and the Wilderness, colony and empire, Canada and the U.S., the Self and the Other - in favour a view that does justice to the complex intertwining of identity and difference.
In doing so he not only opens the way to a new understanding of the politics of identity in English Canada and the creation of a theory of Canadian social identity as postcolonial, particularistic, and pluralist, he also makes an elegant and passionate plea for reintegrating philosophy into public discourse.