Once and Future Canadian Democracy
An Essay in Political Thought
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2003
- Category
- Democracy
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- ISBN
- 9780773571686
- Publish Date
- Oct 2003
- List Price
- $95.00
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Description
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 abandoning our current modes of debate and rediscovering the Enlightenment liberalism that is an enduring part of our political tradition we will help to recreate Canada as a place of debate on fundamentals, not one in which a monolithic definition of identity answers all questions in advance.
About the author
Janet Ajzenstat is professor emeritus, political science, McMaster University. Her most recent book on the Canadian constitution is The Once and Future Canadian Democracy: An Essay in Political Thought.
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