Canadian Political Philosophy: Contemporary Reflections

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INTRODUCTION PART I: RETHINKING LIBERALISM AND CITIZENSHIP 1. Cosmopolitanism, Nationalism, and Immigration: False Dichotomies and Shifting Presuppositions 2. Democracy and Globalization: A Defeasible Sketch 3. New Constitutionalism: Democracy, Habermas, and Canadian Exceptionalism 4. Saving Democracy from Deliberation 5. Self-Defeating Political Education PART II: EQUALITY, JUSTICE AND GENDER 6. History, Ethics, and Marxism 7. Egalitarianism Renewed 8. A Relational Approach to Citizenship 9. Birth, Maternity, Citizenship: Some Reflections PART III: MINORITY RIGHTS, MULTICULTURALISM AND IDENTITY 10. The New Debate over Minority Rights 11. Liberal Nationalism and Multiculturalism 12. Legal Multiculturalism From the Bottom Up 13. What Not to Do About Hate Speech: An Argument Against Censorship 14. Toleration, Canadian Style: Reflections of a Yankee-Canadian 15. Charles Taylor's Pedagogy of Recognition PART IV: NATIONALISM AND SELF-DETERMINATION 16. Lifeboat 17. Communities of Memory 18. Civic and Ethnic Nationalism: Lessons from the Canadian Case 19. The True Nature of Sovereignty: Reply to My Critics Concerning Trudeau and the End of a Canadian Dream 20. The Supreme Court's Reference on Unilateral Secession: A Turning Point in Canadian History 21. Vision: Towards an Understanding of Aboriginal Sovereignty PART V: IN DIALOGUE WITH THE HISTORY OF POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY 22. The Platonic Challenge to the Modern Idea of the Public Intellectual 23. Coercion and Disagreement 24. Liberalism and Moral Subjectivism 25. Weaving a Work 26. The Immanent Counter-Enlightenment

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