Itineraries
AN INTELLECTUAL ODYSSEY
Memoir, Politics, Sociology
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In writing Itineraries, Philip Resnick has focused on a number of influences and currents that have shaped his intellectual life.
It begins with his early years, growing up Jewish in Montreal and his subsequent break with organized religion. This is followed by his encounters with nationalism — Québécois, Canadian, Catalan, and that of a number of other states with majority and minority nationalities within their borders. There is an ongoing commitment to and series of reflections on socialism and on the left. How poetry became his second calling is crucial in his intellectual development. He explores the challenges to democracy and its evolving fortunes from antiquity to our own day. The subject of Canadian identity — multinational, European-influenced, North American in character — is a major strand to the development of his thinking. Itineraries also offers meditations on key political developments over the past forty years and, in a more personal way, on the passage of time.
In concluding this memoir, he asks the question that any of us looking back on our lives will have been prone to ask: What was it all about?
Reviews
“Erudite, reflective, and cosmopolitan, Philip Resnick, one of Canada’s most prolific and respected political scientists, has written a poignant account of his profoundly Canadian journey from a sometimes rigid youthful idealism to humanism and equilibrium.” —Graham Fraser, Senior Fellow, University of Ottawa
“Philip Resnick’s account of his intellectual life is full of food for readers’ reflections. A life led in Quebec, Ontario, and B.C., with sources of inspiration in Greece and Paris, connects to the well-springs of our intellectual, political, and literary life.” —Charles Taylor, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, McGill University
Book Details
Pub Date: May 2019
Trade Publication
150 pages
Print ISBN 9781553806028
E-book ISBN 9781553806033
6” x 9”
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