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Remaining Loyal
Social Democracy in Quebec and Saskatchewan
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
When social democratic politicians in the 1990s moderated their ideas and policies as part of a turn towards the "third way," they were assailed as traitors to the cause. Remaining Loyal demonstrates that while third way social democrats in Quebec and Saskatchewan supplemented certain social democratic...
Religion, Truth, and Social Transformation
Essays in Reformational Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Reformational philosophy rests on the ideas of nineteenth-century educator, church leader, and politician Abraham Kuyper, and it emerged in the early twentieth century among Reformed Protestant thinkers in the Netherlands. Combining comprehensive criticisms of Western philosophy with robust proposals...
Before Copernicus
The Cultures and Contexts of Scientific Learning in the Fifteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2017
In 1984, Noel Swerdlow and Otto Neugebauer argued that Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) explained planetary motion by using mathematical devices and astronomical models originally developed by Islamic astronomers in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. Was this a parallel development, or did Copernicus...
by Katy Le Roy, Cheryl Saunders
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2006
Comparative studies examine the constitutional design and actual operation of governments in Argentina, Australia, Austria, Canada, Germany, India, Nigeria, Russia, South Africa, Switzerland, and the United States. Contributors analyze the structures and workings of legislative, executive, and judicial...
Replacing Misandry
A Revolutionary History of Men
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
In the first three volumes of this series, Paul Nathanson and Katherine Young challenge theories about patriarchy that ideological forms of feminism have promoted. In this volume, they argue that we must replace those misandric theories with one that takes seriously the needs and problems of boys...
Morals and Consent
Contractarian Solutions to Ethical Woes
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017
How are we meant to behave? And how are we to defend whatever answer we give? Morals and Consent grounds our notion of morality in natural evolution, and from that basis, Malcolm Murray shows why contractarianism is a far more viable moral theory than is widely believed. The scope of Morals and Consent...
by Yvan Lamonde
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
In A Social History of Ideas in Quebec, 1760-1896, Yvan Lamonde traces the province's political and intellectual development from the British Conquest to the election of Prime Minister Wilfrid Laurier. From the individuals who formulated them, to the networks in which they circulated, to their reception,...
The Absolute Violation
Why Torture Must Be Prohibited
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2008
Richard Matthews challenges the increasing acceptability of state-sponsored torture interrogation, repudiating any possible justifications. He confronts its various supporters - ticking time bomb and tragic choice theorists, utilitarians, legal scholars - and draws from philosophy, medicine, psychiatry,...
Finding Freedom
Hegel's Philosophy and the Emancipation of Women
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2008
Combining a detailed study of Hegel's political philosophy with close readings of two important literary works that help clarify his thought, MacDonald traces the historical development of an enduring link between personal lives and stable political communities. While Sophocles' Antigone highlights...
Between Dispersion and Belonging
Global Approaches to Diaspora in Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
As a historical and religious term "diaspora" has existed for many years, but it only became an academic and analytical concept in the 1980s and ’90s. Within its various usages, two broad directions stand out: diaspora as a dispersion of people from an original homeland, and diaspora as...
Between Raid and Rebellion
The Irish in Buffalo and Toronto, 1867-1916
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
In Between Raid and Rebellion, William Jenkins compares the lives and allegiances of Irish immigrants and their descendants in one American and one Canadian city between the era of the Fenian raids and the 1916 Easter Rising. Highlighting the significance of immigrants from Ulster to Toronto and from...
Fighting over God
A Legal and Political
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
From before Confederation to the present day, religion has been one of the most contentious issues in Canadian public life. In Fighting over God, Janet Buckingham surveys a vast array of religious conflicts, exploring both their political aspects and the court cases that were part of their resolution....
Truth and Relevance
Catholic Theology in French Quebec since the Quiet Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
After the Quiet Revolution, the Catholic church lost its stronghold in Quebec. Despite this decline, or perhaps because of it, contemporary Catholic thought in Quebec exhibits a bold creativity. In Truth and Relevance, Gregory Baum introduces, contextualizes, and interprets Catholic theological writing...
Fernand Dumont
A Sociologist Turns to Theology
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Fernand Dumont (1927-1997) was a sociologist, philosopher, theologian, and poet. A prominent intellectual in Quebec, he is recognized for his research on the sociology of knowledge and the foundations of modern culture. Dumont's work conceives of culture in terms of both memory and distance, arguing...