The public intellectual in Canada /edited by Nelson Wiseman.
- [CEL version.
- Toronto [Ontario] : University of Toronto Press, (c)2013. Beaconsfield, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, (c)2013.
- 1 online resource (vi, 252 pages)
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction / Part I: What Are Public Intellectuals For? The Public Intellectual and the Democratic Conversation / The Public Intellectual and Politics: Why Choices Matter / Public Thought and the Crisis of Underpopulation / What Are Intellectuals For? A Modest Proposal in Dialogue Form / Nelson Wiseman (University of Toronto) -- Janice Gross Stein (University of Toronto) -- Hugh Segal (Chair of the Special Senate Committee on Anti-Terrorism) -- Doug Saunders (Globe and Mail's European Bureau Chief) -- Mark Kingwell (University of Toronto) Part II: Who Are They? Public Intellectuals in Twentieth-Century Canada / / Gregory Baum (University of Toronto, McGill University) -- Quebec Public Intellectuals in Times of Crisis / Navigating Gendered Spaces: Women as Public Intellectuals / Nelson Wiseman Le Devoir, Forum for the Exchange of Ideas -- Alain-G. Gagnon (Universite du Quebec a Montreal) -- Sylvia Bashevkin (University of Toronto) Part III: On the Front Lines. A Political Scientist in Public Affairs / Personal Success vs. Public Failure: The Muting of Canada's Academic Intellectuals / Polling for Democracy / A People's Intellectual / Canadian Economists as Public Intellectuals / The Unbalanced Discussion of Aboriginal Policy / "Brave New Ethicists": A Cautionary Tale / Tom Flanagan (University of Calgary) -- Stephen Clarkson (University of Toronto) -- Michael Adams (Marketing Research and Intelligence Association) -- Maude Barlow (Council of Canadians, Blue Planet Project) -- Pierre Fortin (Royal Society of Canada, Canadian Institute for Advanced Research) -- John Richards (Simon Fraser University) -- Margaret Somerville (McGill Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law) Conclusion / Nelson Wiseman (University of Toronto).
"The all-star cast of contributors in this collection is a truly impressive assembly. Many are widely know and will be familiar to the reader. All of them have influenced public affairs in Canada as doers as well as thinkers and they span the ideological spectrum. With them, we explore and examine the place of the public intellectual in the context of a rapidly changing and diverse Canadian society in an increasingly interdependent world. Contributors: Michael Adams, Maude Barlow, Sylvia Bashevkin, Gregory Baum, Stephen Clarkson, Tom Flanagan, Pierre Fortin, Alain-G. Gagnon, Mark Kingwell, John Richards, Doug Saunders, Hugh Segal, Margaret Somerville, Janice Gross Stein, Nelson Wiseman."--page 4 of cover.