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Nietzsche’s Tragic Regime
Culture, Aesthetics, and Political Education

(Northern Illinois University Press, 1998)
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This study explores Nietzsche’s political education as a means of understanding his wider political thought. Incorporating biographical details of Nietzsche’s own education, it outlines the course of political education that Nietzsche recommends as an antidote to the crisis in Western European culture. Heilke begins by examining Nietzsche’s formulation of this crisis, especially his conceptions of “Romantic Pessimism,” “Socratism,” and Christianity. For Nietzsche, only a properly ordered education could resolve the problem of how one can transform a society whose fundamental cultural and political premises one rejects. Through education, Nietzsche sought to establish a new political and social system founded upon the principles of tragedy and grounded in the aesthetic tradition of German Romanticism. Nietzsche’s Tragic Regime focuses on Nietzsche’s political philosophy until his resignation from his post as professor in 1876, with attention also to the later writings.

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Author

Thomas Heilke completed his MA at the University of Calgary and his PhD at Duke University. He is now a professor of Political Science at the University of British Columbia (Okanagan) and the author of Eric Voegelin: In Quest of Reality and Nietzsche’s Tragic Regime, among others.

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The Social Life of Biometrics

(Rutgers University Press, 2020)
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In The Social Life of Biometrics, biometrics is loosely defined as a discrete technology of identification that associates physical features with a legal identity. Author George Grinnell considers the social and cultural life of biometrics by examining what it is asked to do, imagined to do, and its intended and unintended effects. As a human-focused account of technology, the book contends that biometrics needs to be understood as a mode of thought that informs how we live and understand one another; it is not simply a neutral technology of identification. Placing our biometric present in historical and cultural perspective, The Social Life of Biometrics examines a range of human experiences of biometrics. It features individual stories from locations as diverse as Turkey, Canada, Qatar, Six Nations territory in New York State, Iraq, the skies above New York City, a university campus and Nairobi to give cultural accounts of identification and look at the ongoing legacies of our biometric ambitions. It ends by considering the ethics surrounding biometrics and human identity, migration, movement, strangers, borders, and the nature of the body and its coherence. How has biometric thought structured ideas about borders, race, covered faces, migration, territory, citizenship, and international responsibility? What might happen if identity was less defined by the question of “who’s there?” and much more by the question “how do you live?”

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Author

George C. Grinnell is an associate professor of English and Cultural studies at the University of British Columbia, Okanagan.

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eBook ISBN: 9781978809086
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Hunting and Weaving
Empiricism and Political Philosophy

(St Augustine’s Press, 2013)
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The essays in this volume honour the work of political scientist and Eric Voegelin scholar, Barry Cooper, by considering how political philosophy (a form of hunting) and empiricism get “woven” together (to borrow a metaphor from Plato). In other words, they consider how science needs to be conducted if it is to remain true to our commonsense experience of the world and to facilitate political judgment.

Several of the essays cover Eric Voegelin, including his understanding of consciousness, a comparison of him and Leo Strauss, and his self-understanding as a scholar. Other essays consider terrorism, technology, religion and the modern world, the divided line in Plato’s Republic, and the political significance of hope. The volume also includes a number of essays that consider different aspects of Canadian politics, including its strong regionalism, political culture, public law, and the infamous “Calgary School” of political science.

These essays are united by the concern that political science must “weave” together political philosophy and empiricism. This task was what Aristotle meant when he characterized political science as a matter of practical wisdom. It is an insight that was also central for Voegelin’s restoration of political science in the twentieth century, and that these essays continue into the twenty-first century.

Political analysis begins in whatever contemporary crisis the analyst has found himself. The analyst sifts through competing claims of political meaning asserted by the partisans in the crisis. From there he ascends to greater luminosity concerning the human condition by viewing those claims in light of the “major questions in the history of political thought.” They inform one another, as the search for order is necessarily the search for order that is conducted by a particular individual’s consciousness in the context of a particular community in space and time.

This volume will be of special interest to scholars of political philosophy as well as citizens and statesmen interested in how an engagement in the history of political philosophy can facilitate political judgment in particular political circumstances.

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Author

John von Heyking is a professor in the department of Political Science at the University of Lethbridge.

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Paperback ISBN: 9781587313745

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Readings in Political Ideologies
Since the Rise of Modern Science

(Oxford University Press, 2013)
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This comprehensive reader explores core ideas and theorists through classic and contemporary primary source readings. Including Canadian examples and engaging pedagogy throughout, this text covers a wide range of diverse and intersecting ideologies to give students a well-rounded introduction to the discipline.

(Description Source: Oxford University Press)

Author

B. McCullough is a professor emeritus in the Political Science Department at the University of British Columbia (Okanagan). He is the author of several books and journal articles on political philosophy and ideology and has been teaching political thought courses for over 10 years.

Wolfgang Depner received his Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of British Columbia, Okanagan.

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Paper ISBN: 9780195445473

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Political Ideologies
2nd edn

(Oxford University Press, 2017)
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Providing a concise overview of the political theories and theorists that have shaped the modern world, Political Ideologies dissects the major political ideologies of our age, uncovering the rich layers of both their historical roots and their contemporary expressions. Real events are incorporated to demonstrate political ideologies in action, while chapters on secularism, feminism, and religious fundamentalism acquaint students with the workings of these and other topical world views.

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Understanding School Choice in Canada

(University of Toronto Press, 2016)
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Understanding School Choice in Canada provides a nuanced and theoretical overview of the formation and rise of school choice policies in Canada. Drawing on twenty years of work, Lynn Bosetti and Dianne Gereluk analyze the philosophical, historical, political, and social principles that underpin the formation and implementation of school choice policies in the provinces and territories.

Bosetti and Gereluk offer theoretical frameworks for considering the parameters of school choice policies that are aligned and attentive to Canadian educational contexts. This robust overview successfully shifts the debate away from ideology in order to facilitate an understanding that the spectrum of school choice policy in Canada is a response to the varying political challenges in society at large. This book is essential reading for those who desire a deeper understanding of school choice policies in Canada.

(Description Source: University of Toronto Press)

Author

Lynn Bosetti joined the University of British Columbia in September 2010 as Dean of Faculty of Education. Prior to her position she was tenured faculty at the University of Calgary in Educational Policy and Leadership Studies. Bosetti is responsible for the $1.2 million donor gift of intellectual property of SMART to the Faculty of Education.

She was a Visiting Scholar at University of Melbourne, University of Glasgow, Visiting Lecturer at University of Saskatchewan, and Visiting Fellow at St. Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge. Most recently Lynn was a professor and Dean of the School of Education in La Trobe University, Melbourne Australia.

Her research and teaching has focused on faith, identity and the common school, planning alternative futures for education, issues related to school choice, charter schools and more recently, university leadership in the new economy.

Dianne Gereluk is the associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs in Education, and an associate professor in leadership, policy, and governance at the Werklund School of Education, University of Calgary.

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Education in a Post-Metaphysical World
Rethinking Educational Policy and Practice Through Jürgen Habermas’ Discourse Morality

(Bloomsbury, 2012)
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What does it mean to say that a person has been educated? This question forms the basis of global education policy debates; from the way governments establish funding for national school systems, to the way children are treated in the classroom. Should there be a common ethical core to such policies? What kind of educational process should aboriginal groups in Labrador, Canada, have a moral right to, and should this process be different from what children in New York’s boroughs have a claim to? Should a school-based curriculum, such as the UK’s National Curriculum, make well-being a central concern or are there other ethical dimensions to be addressed? Christopher Martin explores these questions and argues that the best way to consider them is to view education as a matter of public moral understanding. He brings together traditions of thought central to philosophy of education, such as R.S. Peters, and connects this tradition to the moral philosophy and critical theory of Jurgen Habermas, whose theory of Discourse Morality has previously been given little attention in education circles.

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Author

Christopher Martin is an associate professor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia (Okanagan). His research focuses on the philosophy of education. His specific areas of interest include educational ethics, the aims of higher education, and education for democracy. His work has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Spencer Foundation, and the Centre for Ethics and Education (Wisconsin).

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Paperback ISBN – 9781472569127
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ePub ISBN – 9781441111081
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Mistakes of Reason
Essays in Honour of John Woods

(University of Toronto Press, 2005)
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Over a distinguished academic career, the Canadian philosopher and scholar John Woods has written on a rich variety of topics central to contemporary philosophy. These include the history and philosophy of logic, deviant logics, inductive and abductive reasoning, informal reasoning, fallacy theory, the logic of fiction, epistemology, and abortion and euthanasia. Not only has Woods’ work been significant in itself, it has also stimulated others working in these fields.

Mistakes of Reason is a tribute to Woods and contains twenty-six new essays by leading Canadian and international philosophers. The essays are accompanied by commentaries by Woods himself, creating a unique dialogue between Woods and his colleagues. Editors Kent A. Peacock and Andrew D. Irvine have grouped the works under the themes of Reality, Knowledge, Logic and Language, Reasoning, and Values. The essays evaluate Woods’ work and celebrate the generous contribution that he has made to Canada’s intellectual development over the past forty years.

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Editors

Andrew Irvine is a professor of Philosophy at UBC’s Okanagan Campus. He received his PhD from the University of Sydney for work in the Department of Traditional and Modern Philosophy on mathematical truth and scientific realism. Since then he has published and lectured on topics in the Philosophy of Mathematics, the History and Philosophy of Logic, and the Philosophy of Law. He is especially interested in the work of the twentieth-century philosopher, essayist and social critic, Bertrand Russell. He is co-author of the logic textbook Argument and author of the stage play Socrates on Trial.

Kent A. Peacock is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Lethbridge.

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Hardback ISBN: 9780802038661
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Argument
Critical Thinking, Logic and the Fallacies (2nd edn)

(Prentice Hall, 2004)
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This book is designed for use in critical-thinking courses and traditional logic courses in both philosophy and general-education departments. It will be of interest to students at both the university and college level. The book emphasizes developments in modern logic and the connections between logic and other disciplines. Discussion of the fallacies is helpfully integrated with modern logic in a way not seen in other texts. The book provides students with the tools they need to evaluate their own thinking, as well as many classic arguments found in the history of logic. More than simply a collection of logic exercises, the book gives readers an understanding of some of the most interesting theoretical developments in logic and critical thinking from Aristotle to the present day.

(Description Source: Pearson)

Authors

Andrew Irvine is a professor of philosophy at UBC’s Okanagan Campus. He received his PhD from the University of Sydney for work in the Department of Traditional and Modern Philosophy on mathematical truth and scientific realism. Since then he has published and lectured on topics in the philosophy of mathematics, the history and philosophy of logic, and the philosophy of law. He is especially interested in the work of the twentieth-century philosopher, essayist and social critic, Bertrand Russell. He is co-author of the logic textbook Argument and author of the stage play Socrates on Trial.

John Woods is an honorary professor of logic at UBC Vancouver and is president emeritus at the University of Lethbridge.

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Paper ISBN: 9780130399380

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What’s Wrong with Benevolence
Happiness, Private Property, and the Limits of Enlightenment

(Encounter Books, 2011)
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Is benevolence a virtue? In many cases it appears to be so. But when it comes to the “enlarged benevolence” of the Enlightenment, David Stove argues that the answer is clearly no. In this insightful, provocative essay, Stove builds a case for the claim that when benevolence is universal, disinterested and external, it regularly leads to the forced redistribution of wealth, which in turn leads to decreased economic incentives, lower rates of productivity and increased poverty.

As Stove points out, there is an air of paradox in saying that benevolence may be a cause of poverty. But there shouldn’t be. Good intentions alone are never sufficient to guarantee the success of one’s endeavours. Utopian schemes to reorganize the world have regularly ended in failure.

Easily the most important example of this phenomenon is twentieth-century communism. As Stove reminds us, the attractiveness of communism—the “emotional fuel” of communist revolutionaries for over a hundred years—has always been “exactly the same as the emotional fuel of every other utopianism: the passionate desire to alleviate or abolish misery.” Yet communism was such a monumental failure that millions of people today are still suffering its consequences.

In this most prescient of essays, Stove warns contemporary readers just how seductive universal political benevolence can be. He also shows how the failure to understand the connection between benevolence and communism has led to many of the greatest social miseries of our age.

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Authors

David Stove was a professor of philosophy at the University of Sydney.

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ISBN: 9781594035234

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