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Phenomenology and Logic
The Boston College Lectures on Mathematical Logic and Existentialism, Volume 18
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2001
Collected here for the first time, this series of lectures delivered by Lonergan at Boston College in 1957 illustrates a pivotal time in Lonergan's intellectual history, marking both the transition from the faculty psychology still present in his work Insight to intentionality analysis and his initial...
Insight
A Study of Human Understanding, Volume 3
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 1992
Insight is Bernard Lonergan's masterwork. It aim is nothing less than insight into insight itself, a comprehensive view of knowledge and understanding, and to state what one needs to understand and how one proceeds to understand it.
In Lonergan's own words: 'Thoroughly understand what it is...
Our Place in the Sun
Canada and Cuba in the Castro Era
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2009
Penned during the transition of power from Fidel Castro to Raúl Castro, Our Place in the Sun explores the Canadian-Cuban relationship from 1959 to the present day. The essays in this volume reflect upon the past but also explore the internal issues and external forces that will continue to influence...
The Prosecutor
An Inquiry into the Exercise of Discretion
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1978
Every day decisions made by prosecutors, before trial takes place, critically affect the rights of citizens; yet these decisions remain a grey area in the administration of criminal justice. In fact, there are considerable and important differences between what the prosecutor does and what the legal...
People of Substance
An Ethnography of Morality in the Colombian Amazon
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2012
People of Substance is a lively, accessible ethnography of a complex indigenous group of people of the Colombian Amazon who call themselves ‘People of the Center. ’ Carlos David Londoño Sulkin examines this group's understandings and practices relating to selfhood, social organization, livelihood,...
David Hume's Political Theory
Law, Commerce and the Constitution of Government
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2007
David Hume (1711-1776) is perhaps best known for his treatises on problems of epistemology, skepticism, and causation. A less familiar side of his intellectual output is his work on legal and political theory. David Hume's Political Theory brings together Hume's diverse writings on law and government,...
Constitutional Odyssey
Can Canadians Become a Sovereign People?, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2004
Constitutional Odyssey is an account of the politics of making and changing Canada's constitution from Confederation to the present day. Peter H. Russell frames his analysis around two contrasting constitutional philosophies – Edmund Burke's conception of the constitution as a set of laws and practices...
The Courts, the Charter, and the Schools
The Impact of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms on Educational Policy and Practice, 1982-2007
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2010
The adoption of the Canadian Constitution Act in 1982, with its embedded Charter of Rights and Freedoms, ushered in an era of unprecedented judicial influence on Canada's public policy. The Courts, the Charter, and the Schools examines how the Constitution Act has affected educational policy during...
Exalted Subjects
Studies in the Making of Race and Nation in Canada
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2007
Questions of national identity, indigenous rights, citizenship, and migration have acquired unprecedented relevance in this age of globalization. In Exalted Subjects, noted feminist scholar Sunera Thobani examines the meanings and complexities of these questions in a Canadian context. Based in the...
Queer Inclusions, Continental Divisions
Public Recognition of Sexual Diversity in Canada and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2008
No area of public policy and law has seen more change than lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, and trans-gender rights, and none so greatly needs careful comparative analysis. Queer Inclusions, Continental Divisions explores the politics of sexual diversity in Canada and the United States by analyzing three...
The Politics of Race
Canada, the United States, and Australia
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2012
The Politics of Race is an excellent resource for students and general readers seeking to learn about race policies and legislation. Arguing that 'states make race,' it provides a unique comparison of the development and construction of race in three white settler societies — Canada, the United...
Canadian Islamic Schools
Unravelling the Politics of Faith, Gender, Knowledge, and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2008
Religious schooling in Canada has been a controversial subject since the secularization of the public school system, but there has been little scholarship on Islamic education. In this ethnographic study of four full-time Islamic schools, Jasmin Zine explores the social, pedagogical, and ideological...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2016
In Canada, the 1982 Constitution Act contains the amending formula, which outlines a set of procedures required to make changes to the constitution. Recent debates over Senate reform, the status of the Supreme Court of Canada, and the rules governing royal succession have highlighted how important...
by Jordi Diez, Susan Franceschet
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2012
This pioneering collection offers a comprehensive investigation into how to study public policy in Latin America. While this region exhibits many similarities with the North American and European countries that have traditionally served as sources for generating public policy knowledge, Latin American...