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The once and future Canadian democracy : an essay in political thought /

To revitalize politics we need to abandon the idea that ideologies evolve from "right" to "left", from conservatism to socialism, and look at our political differences in terms of the distinction, more familiar in the arts, between classicism and romanticism. She argues that by a...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Ajzenstat, Janet, 1936-
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2003.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""PART ONE Liberals and Romantics""; ""1 Prenez Garde!""; ""2 Beyond Right-Centre-Left""; ""3 The Evil Futures""; ""PART TWO Getting to Democracy""; ""4 What Romantics Say""; ""5 Are We There Yet? Liberal Arguments""; ""6 Why Historians Canâ€?t Put a Date to Democracy""; ""7 What Did the Fathers Say?""; ""8 The Monarchical Element""; ""9 Parliament: The Talking Shop""; ""PART THREE Bringing in the Future""; ""10 Last Train from Right-Centre-Left""; ""11 Romantic Ideas: George Grant""; ""12 Romance in a Democratic Clime""
  • ""13 The Romantic Artist in Her Lonely Garret""""14 The Three Deaths of the Canadian Constitution""; ""Sources""; ""Index""