Northern Spirits

Introduction: Spirit in Canada Part one : Hegels Project of Reconciliation 1 Reconciliation, Freedom, and the State; 2 Spirit and Sittlichkeit; 3 The Dialectic of Self and State Part two : John Watson and the Spirit of Empire 4 Idealism and Imperialism; 5 Watsons Political Problem: The Individual and the State; 6 Watsons History of Universal Reason; 7 The State in Question: Hobbes, Rousseau, and Hegel; 8 Watsons Theory of Relative Sovereignty; 9 Watson contra the British and American Hegelians; 10 Watsons Imperial Spirit Part three: George Grant and the Spirit of Tyranny 11 Canadas Fate and the Worship of History; 12 Hegels Theology of Glory; 13 The Mistake of Christianity; 14 The Fate of North America; 15 Trudeau and the Betrayals of the Bureaucrats; 16 Philosophy, Tyranny, and the End of Canada Part four: Charles Taylor and the Spirit of Community 17 Recognition and the Saving of Modernity; 18 A Philosophical History of Recognition; 19 Expressivism and the Ethic of Authenticity; 20 Herder and the Measure of Expression; 21 Freedom, Community, State: Hegel contra Taylor; 22 Quebec, Trudeau, and the Crisis of Canada; 23 Illiberal Strands in Taylors Thought Part Five: Northern Spirits An Iterative Conclusion 24 Taylors Tale of Multiculturalism; 25 Grant and the Conundrum of Canada; 26 Watson and the Return to Empire