Wednesday 13 June 2012

Three Canadian Hegelians

Robert C. Sibley's Northern Spirits: John Watson, George Grant, and Charles Taylor: appropriations of Hegelian political thought  (McGill-Queen’s:  UP,  2008) clearly deserves a mention here given the general theme of this blog. At present this is based on publicly available information.  
Of the subjects, John Watson was a pupil of Glasgow and Oxford Professor Edward Caird and a prolific and insightful author across a range of philosophical themes, including history of philosophy.  As far as I know, Grant is a more Canadian figure; whilst Charles Taylor has an international reputation for his modifications of a more or less liberal standpoint, as well as for his monumental commentary on Hegel (1975).

The author of this study, Robert Sibley, is a Canadian journalist and focuses on the public impact of his subjects' work.  There are currently fairly cheap paperback copies available.  Anyone with more information please feel free to comment.

Grant Havers' essay, A Christian Hegel in Canada (2019), may also be of interest. It discusses Hegel schoalrs H.S. Harris and Emil fackenheim, amongst others

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