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Sweet Nothing

A philosophical memoir, powerfully woven together by a personal narrative of the Italian immigrant experience, Sweet Nothing is an eco-feminist, spiritual and philosophical lament against the increasing ...

The Undiscovered Country

By (author) Ian Angus
Categories: Philosophy
Series: Cultural Dialectics

In this sequence of essays, Ian Angus engages with themes of identity, power, and the nation as they emerge in contemporary English Canadian philosophical thought, seeking to prepare the groundwork for ...

Identity/Difference Politics

By (author) Rita Dhamoon
Categories: Politics and government

Theories of liberal multiculturalism have come to dominate debates
about identity and difference politics in contemporary western
political theory. Identity/Difference Politics offers a
nuanced critique ...

Northern Spirits

By (author) Robert C. Sibley
Categories: Philosophy

Robert Sibley, a senior writer with the Ottawa Citizen, has a Ph. D in political science from Carleton University.

The Ursula Franklin Reader

Feminist, educator, Quaker, and physicist, Ursula Franklin has long been considered one of Canada’s foremost advocates and practitioners of pacifism. The Ursula Franklin Reader: Pacifism as a Map is ...

The Ethical Imagination

Science and technology force us to ask some of the most challenging and unprecedented ethical questions in the world today. These issues encompass what it means to be human, how we relate to others and ...

In the Agora

Edited by Andrew D. Irvine & John S. Russell
Categories: Philosophy

Mark Kingwell, John Ralston Saul, Jan Zwicky, Thomas Hurka, Will Kymlicka, Graeme Hunter, Paul and Patricia Churchland, Michel Seymour, Arthur Schafer, Charles Taylor-the list of Canadian philosophers ...

Freedom, Equality, Community

James Bickerton is professor, political science, St Francis Xavier University.
Stephen Brooks is professor, political science, University of Windsor, and adjunct professor, University of Michigan.
Alain-G. ...

Lament for a Nation

By (author) George Grant
Categories: Philosophy
Series: Carleton Library Series

George P. Grant (1918-1988) was the author of Philosophy in the Mass Age, Technology and Empire, English-Speaking Justice, and Technology and Justice.
Andrew Potter is a visiting fellow at the Centre ...

Philosophical Conversations

By (author) Robert M. Martin
Categories: Philosophy

Philosophical Conversations is a light, informal, and contemporary introduction to the study of philosophy. Using a dialogue format, Robert M. Martin delves into the traditional questions of philosophy ...