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category: Political Science
published: Sep 2018
ISBN:9780774836487
publisher: UBC Press

Lived Fictions

Unity and Exclusion in Canadian Politics

by John N. Grant

tagged: canadian
Description

The idea of political unity contains its own opposite, because a political community can never guarantee the equal status of all its members. The price of belonging is an entrenched social stratification within the political unit itself. This book explores how the desire for political unity generates a collective commitment to certain lived fictions – the citizen-state, the market economy, and so forth – that shape our understanding of political legitimacy and responsibility. Canada promises unity through democratic politics, reconciliation with Indigenous peoples, a welfare state, and a multicultural approach to cultural relations. John Grant documents the historical failure of these promises, elaborating the radical institutional and intellectual changes needed to overcome our lived fictions.

About the Author
John N. Grant is a professor emeritus in the Department of Classics at the University of Toronto.
Contributor Notes

John Grant is an assistant professor of political science at King’s University College at Western University. He is the author of Dialectics and Contemporary Politics: Critique and Transformation from Hegel through Post-Marxism (2011).

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  • , In this book, John Grant accomplishes several achievements, any of which would be impressive on thei
Editorial Reviews

In this book, John Grant accomplishes several achievements, any of which would be impressive on their own.

— Contemporary Political Theory

[Grant's] analysis brilliantly redefines the boundaries of scholarly interrogation on questions of belonging and inequality.

— British Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol. 33.1

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