Towards a Canada of Light
- Publisher
- Dundurn Press
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2006
- Category
- Political, Geopolitics, Economic Policy
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780887622281
- Publish Date
- Sep 2006
- List Price
- $24.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781459726048
- Publish Date
- Mar 2014
- List Price
- $8.99
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Description
B.W. Powe’s visionary work of political philosophy dares to re-imagine Canada. First conceived in 1993, this fully revised, expanded, updated edition, complete with an inspired new introduction that considers Canada in a post-9/11 context, is a landmark book that has become a classic text for understanding the work-in-progress that is Canada.
Countering George Grant’s pessimistic Lament for a Nation, which defined the intellectual climate in Canada for decades, Powe argues that our country is in fact a completely original model of what an enlightened polity might be for the 21st century.
Here is a passionately inspired portrait of Canada as a communication state – a counter-nation of loose ties and subtle associations where dialogue, ideas, debate and the exchange of information is the currency that holds us lightly together.
Towards a Canada of Light points to the urgent realization of a new and liberating way of what it means to be Canadian.
About the author
Bruce W. Powe is a Professor of Humanities at York University. He is the author of a number of influential books including The Solitary Outlaw and A Climate Charged, as well as the novel Outage and a book of poetry The Unsaid Passing.
Editorial Reviews
Powe has discovered the roots of an informal Canadian democracy and shows is its poetry and wonder.
The Toronto Star
A new vision of Canada, freed of borders and race.
John Ralston Saul
Exciting, demanding, and pathbreaking… a bold new answer to questions about Canada.
Pierre Elliott Trudeau
An innovative view… a challenging meditation.
The Edmonton Journal
When I read the first few pages of A Canada of Light I had to put the book down to catch my breath… a soaring alchemical vision.
Pico Iyer, author of Cuba and the Night and The Global Soul.
Gloriously poetic…. Read aloud to anyone you love.
The Victoria Sun