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Between Words

Anne Carson’s new book-without-a-spine, and the spiritual experience of centrelessness

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

A postmodern elegy from our most original writer

Boredom as a Political Weapon

Saul Bellow fought banality—and taught us to look hard at the world

David MacGregor

David MacGregor teaches in the Department of Sociology at King’s University College at the University of Western Ontario. He has written books and articles on Hegel and Marx, automobility, aging, and the sociology of evil.

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David MacGregor

Canada’s Hegel

Our nation of compromise February 1994
I. Five years ago, a New York law journal sponsored a symposium on Hegel and law. Charles Taylor, the Montreal philosopher, gave the keynote address. Taylor argued that liberal theory needs to be supplemented with a communitarian view, inspired by Hegel’s political philosophy. Reviewing an edited version of the symposium, Hegel and Legal Theory…