"This book corrects an imbalance in Canadian political literature through offering a conservative account of Canadian political thought. Across 15 chronologically organized chapters, and with a mixture of established and rising scholars, the book offers an investigation of the defining features and characteristics of Canadian conservative political thought, asking what have Canadian conservative political thinkers and practitioners learned from other traditions and, in turn, what have they contribute to our understanding of conservative political thought today? Rather than its culmination, Canadian Conservative Political Thought will be the beginning of conservative political thought's recovery and will spark debates and future research. The book will bea great resource for courses on Canadian politics, history, political philosophy and conservatism, Canadian Studies, and political theory"--
This book corrects an imbalance in Canadian political literature through offering a conservative account of Canadian political thought.
This book corrects an imbalance in Canadian political literature through offering a conservative account of Canadian political thought.
Across 15 chronologically organized chapters, and with a mixture of established and rising scholars, the book offers an investigation of the defining features and characteristics of Canadian conservative political thought, asking what have Canadian conservative political thinkers and practitioners learned from other traditions and, in turn, what have they contributed to our understanding of conservative political thought today?
Rather than its culmination, Canadian Conservative Political Thought will be the beginning of conservative political thoughts recovery and will spark debates and future research. The book will be a great resource for courses on Canadian politics, history, political philosophy and conservatism, Canadian Studies, and political theory.
Introduction: What is Canadian Conservative Political Thought? Part 1: A
Founding of a Nation among Strangers
1. "Little Platoons and Ancient
Traditions": Edmund Burkes Critique of Imperialism and Contemporary North
American Indigenous Anti-Colonialism
2. Praying Alone: Tocqueville on the
Present State and Probable Future of Quebec
3. John Strachans Loyalist
Political Thought: Tocquevilles "Aristocratic Mores Without Aristocrats"
4.
The Sacred Temple of Truth: Thomas DArcy McGees Civic Nationalism
5.
Canadian Conservatism and National Developmentalism: Sir John A. Macdonalds
Hamiltonian Persuasion Part 2: High Toryism, Liberalism, and Globalism
6. The
High Tory Conservatism of Eugene Forsey and John Farthing
7. Globalist
Nihilism, Liberal Relativism, and Tutorialist Statecraft: A Critique of Janet
Ajzenstats Canadian Political Philosophy
8. Ajzenstat Versus the Oligarchs
9. Charles Taylors Interculturalism and the Crisis of Liberalism
10. "Even
More Than International": Brock Chisholm and the Origins of Canadian
Globalist Thought Part 3: Culture, Technology, and Place
11. Marshall
McLuhan: Canadian Political Philosophy for the Digital Age
12. History as
Progress or Reversal? The Mythical Prognostications of Kojčve and McLuhan
13.
George Grant, Time, and Eternity
14. Of Homesteaders and Orangemen: An
Archeology of Western Canadian Political Identity
15. Globalization through
Rose-Tinted Glasses: Schitt's Creek and the Power of Civic Virtue
16. Sources
for Renewal for Canadian Conservatism
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), Dostoevskys Political Thought (2013), and Aristocratic Souls in Democratic Times (2018).
Lee Trepanier is Professor of Political Science at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. He is the author and editor of several books and the editor of Lexington Books series Politics, Literature, and Film.
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