Major thinkers engage with King's less studied writing, arguing its marginalization has let King be drafted into projects he would not endorse.
Political science--Philosophy
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- Author:Judt, Tony, Snyder, TimothySummary:
Renowned historian Tony Judt's final work brings the twentieth century's conflicted intellectual history to life as the age of ideas. Spanning the entire era and all currents of thought, this book restores clarity to the classics of...
- Author:Grant, GeorgeSummary:
George Grant -- philosopher, conservative, Canadian nationalist -- was one of Canada's most significant thinkers and the author of Lament for a Nation. In Technology and Empire, Grant reflects on the extent to which technology has...
- Author:Williams, DavidSummary:
Liberal thinkers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were alert to the political costs and human cruelties involved in European colonialism, but they also thought that European expansion held out progressive possibilities. In...
- Author:Cayley, DavidSummary:
Historian Ramsay Cook called George Grant one of Canada's two most important political thinkers in the twentieth century. In these lively conversations, recorded not long before Grant's death, David Cayley explores with Grant the deep...
- Author:Kingston, Rebecca, Ferry, LeonardSummary:
The rationalist ideal has been met with cynicism in progressive circles for undermining the role of emotion and passion in the public realm. By exploring the social and political implications of the emotions in the history of ideas,...