Canadian Conservative Political Thought

Richard Avramenko is Professor of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of Courage: The Politics of Life and Limb (2011), and has co-edited books on Friendship and Politics (2008), Dostoevsky’s Political Thought (2013), and Aristocratic Souls in Democratic Times (2018). Lee Trepanier is Professor of Political Science at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama. He is the author and editor of several books and the editor of Lexington Books series Politics, Literature, and Film.

Introduction: What is Canadian Conservative Political Thought? Part 1: A Founding of a Nation among Strangers 1. "Little Platoons and Ancient Traditions": Edmund Burke’s Critique of Imperialism and Contemporary North American Indigenous Anti-Colonialism 2. Praying Alone: Tocqueville on the Present State and Probable Future of Quebec 3. John Strachan’s Loyalist Political Thought: Tocqueville’s "Aristocratic Mores Without Aristocrats" 4. The Sacred Temple of Truth: Thomas D’Arcy McGee’s Civic Nationalism 5. Canadian Conservatism and National Developmentalism: Sir John A. Macdonald’s Hamiltonian Persuasion Part 2: High Toryism, Liberalism, and Globalism 6. The High Tory Conservatism of Eugene Forsey and John Farthing 7. Globalist Nihilism, Liberal Relativism, and Tutorialist Statecraft: A Critique of Janet Ajzenstat’s Canadian Political Philosophy 8. Ajzenstat Versus the Oligarchs 9. Charles Taylor’s Interculturalism and the Crisis of Liberalism 10. "Even More Than International": Brock Chisholm and the Origins of Canadian Globalist Thought Part 3: Culture, Technology, and Place 11. Marshall McLuhan: Canadian Political Philosophy for the Digital Age 12. History as Progress or Reversal? The Mythical Prognostications of Kojève and McLuhan 13. George Grant, Time, and Eternity 14. Of Homesteaders and Orangemen: An Archeology of Western Canadian Political Identity 15. Globalization through Rose-Tinted Glasses: Schitt's Creek and the Power of Civic Virtue 16. Sources for Renewal for Canadian Conservatism