Hegel and Canada is a collection of essays that analyses the real, but under-recognized, role Hegel has played in the intellectual and political development of Canada. The volume focuses on the generation of Canadian scholars who emerged after World War Two: James Doull,¿Emil Fackenheim, George Grant, Henry S. Harris,¿and Charles Taylor.

Edited by Susan M. Dodd and Neil G. Robertson

Contents

1. Introduction: Unity of Opposites? Hegel and Canada, by Susan Dodd

HEGEL AND CANADIAN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

2. Hegel in Canada, by John Burbidge

3. Jewish and Post-Christian Interpretations of Hegel: Emil Fackenheim and Henry S. Harris, by George di Giovanni

4. Fackenheim on Self-making, Divine and Human, by Daniel Brandes

5. Conscience, Religion, and Multiculturalism: A Canadian Hegel, by John Russon

6. Conquering Finitude: Towards a Renewed Hegelian Middle, by Jim Vernon

7. Hegel’s Theory of Mind, by Charles Taylor

8. Negativity: Charles Taylor, Hegel and the Problem of Modern Freedom, by Kenneth Kierans

HEGEL IN CANADIAN POLITICS

9. Early Canadian Political Culture: Hegelian Adaptations and John Watson, by Elizabeth Trott

10. Idealism and Empire: John Watson, Michael Ignatieff and the moral warrant for "liberal imperialism," by Robert Sibley

11. Beyond ‘Hegel’s time’: Made in the USA. Not Available in Canada, by David

MacGregor

12. Freedom and the Tradition: George Grant, James Doull and the Character of Modernity, by

Neil Robertson

13.Grant, Hegel and the ‘Impossibility of Canada,’ by Robert Sibley

14. Hegel and Canada’s Constitution, by Graeme Nicholson

15. Hegel’s Laurentian Fragments, by Barry Cooper

16. Hegel and the Challenges of Cross-Cultural Feminism, by Shannon Hoff

17. Conclusion Canada and the Unity of Opposites?, by Neil Robertson