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Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Spirit in Canada 3
5. Hegel and the Spirit of Reconciliation
6. Reconciliation, Freedom, and the State 15
7. Spirit and Sittlichkeit 20
8. The Dialectic of Self and State 29
9. John Watson and the Spirit of Empire
10. Idealism and Imperialism 41
11. Watson’s Political Problem: The Individual and the State 48
12. Watson’s History of Universal Reason 59
13. The State in Question: Hobbes, Rousseau, and Hegel 67
14. Watson’s Theory of Relative Sovereignty 76
15. Watson contra the British and American Hegelians 86
16. Watson’s Imperial Spirit 101
17. George Grant and the Spirit of Tyranny
18. Canada’s “Fate” and the Worship of History 111
19. Hegel’s Theology of Glory 128
20. The “Mistake” of Christianity 138
21. The “Fate” of North America 149
22. Trudeau and the Betrayals of the Bureaucrats 158
23. Philosophy, Tyranny, and the “End” of Canada 168
24. Charles Taylor and the Spirit of Community
25. Recognition and the “Saving” of Modernity 179
26. A Philosophical History of Recognition 191
27. Expressivism and the Ethic of Authenticity 199
28. Herder and the “Measure” of Expressivism 207
29. Freedom, Community, State: Hegel contra Taylor 216
30. Quebec, Trudeau, and the Crisis of Canada 224
31. Illiberal Strands in Taylor’s Thought 239
32. Northern Spirits - an Iterative Conclusion
33. Taylor’s Tale of Multiculturalism 257
34. Grant and the Conundrum of Canada 271
35. Watson and the Return to Empire 281
36. Notes 301
37. Bibliography 369
38. Index 389