Northern Spirits

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

• Introduction: Spirit in Canada Part one : Hegels Project of Reconciliation 1 Reconciliation, Freedom, and the State; 2 Spirit and Sittlichkeit; 3 The Dialectic of Self and State Part two : John Watson and the Spirit of Empire 4 Idealism and Imperialism; 5 Watsons Political Problem: The Individual and the State; 6 Watsons History of Universal Reason; 7 The State in Question: Hobbes, Rousseau, and Hegel; 8 Watsons Theory of Relative Sovereignty; 9 Watson contra the British and American Hegelians; 10 Watsons Imperial Spirit Part three: George Grant and the Spirit of Tyranny 11 Canadas Fate and the Worship of History; 12 Hegels Theology of Glory; 13 The Mistake of Christianity; 14 The Fate of North America; 15 Trudeau and the Betrayals of the Bureaucrats; 16 Philosophy, Tyranny, and the End of Canada Part four: Charles Taylor and the Spirit of Community 17 Recognition and the Saving of Modernity; 18 A Philosophical History of Recognition; 19 Expressivism and the Ethic of Authenticity; 20 Herder and the Measure of Expression; 21 Freedom, Community, State: Hegel contra Taylor; 22 Quebec, Trudeau, and the Crisis of Canada; 23 Illiberal Strands in Taylors Thought Part Five: Northern Spirits An Iterative Conclusion 24 Taylors Tale of Multiculturalism; 25 Grant and the Conundrum of Canada; 26 Watson and the Return to Empire

"The idea of looking at three influential Canadian thinkers in terms of their debt to Hegel is novel and illuminating there is no comparable study." Janet Ajzenstat, McMaster University