Border Within
National Identity, Cultural Plurality, and Wilderness
1st Edition
Published on 28. May 1997
280 pages
978-0-7735-6676-7 (ISBN)
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The border is the governing metaphor of the book. Angus argues that English Canadian identity revolves around maintaining a border between Canada and the United States, and suggests that the border between countries can also be seen as a border between self and Other, between humanity and nature. Multiculturalism and the ecology movement''s rethinking of the relation between humanity and nature suggest that English Canadian social and political philosophy is oriented toward sustaining a border between self and Other, in order to preserve what is one''s own while maintaining and respecting the Other. Angus argues that contemporary public discourse is hampered both by the tribalizing devolution of the politics of identity and the globalizing forces of corporate political economy. Addressing this impasse requires a new understanding of the politics of identity in English Canada and the creation of a theory of Canadian social identity as postcolonial, particularist, and pluralist.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Preface
- 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
- Appendix 1: Missing Links in Canadian Theoretical Discourse
- Appendix 2: Conflicting Sovereignties
- Appendix 3: For a Canadian Philosophy
- Notes
- Index
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