Continentalizing Canada

Inwood, Gregory J.

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“…Although Tranq. 17.3 is often cited as evidence that Seneca did not advocate full withdrawal from public lifefor example byInwood (2005) 351, I agree with Griffin (1976) 323-4 that this passage serves a different purpose, namely advice about observing the mean in social conduct. Seneca explores retirement again in the de Otio, and in Epistles 14, 19, 36, and 68 (although references recur across the entire collection of Lettersunderstandable given that Seneca com-war torments others' Brev.…”

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Autonomy

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Seneca's Characters

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chapter 4 AUTONOMY Forming an identity implies the ability to do so. In more profound terms: self-definition, of the kind discussed throughout this monograph, is predicated upon individuals' relative autonomy and agency, their capacity to effect changes in their own lives and in the world around them, to act in accordance with their own wishes, to avoid undue social, bodily, or moral constraints imposed from outside. The obverse also holds, because compromised autonomy is typically accompanied by a disruption or diminution of personal identity, with the oppressed individual becoming, at worst, an object, a vessel, an instrument.Autonomy constitutes a, if not the, major distinction between the categories of 'character' and 'person', because fictional beings claim no real capacity for self-determination, no matter how full or dominant their personalities may seem. Characters are trapped within texts, at the mercy of authors and readers alike, and have no contingent futures on which to exercise their powers of choicethey have no powers of choice. Instrumentality, object-status, is their inescapable fate, a point brought home all the more forcefully in Senecan tragedy where dramatis personae openly acknowledge their positions within pre-existing and concurrent literary traditions, their identities predicated not just on authorial invention, but also on the demands of genre and of prior poetic models. Against such a background, their notorious tendency for self-assertion may seem a pitiful mirage. However often Medea affirms herself as Medea, or Hercules as Hercules, they remain unable to alter themselves or their circumstances. The desire of so many Senecan protagonists to push forward and dare the undareable, do the impossible, acts as a foil to the agency they do not ultimately possess. They may rant as much as they wish: it won't change anything.

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“…23) implies more an inflated sense of self than fulfilment of a pre-established role. 2 In any case, Inwood (2005) 132-56 argues for the relevance of 'will' but not 'free will' in Senecan Stoicism. Nor should concepts of freedom, such as those expounded by Seneca, be conflated with free will: see Bobzien (1998) 242-3 and Inwood (2005) 303.…”

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“…Members of that school characteristically counterclaimed that "all human thought is historical and hence unable to grasp anything eternal" (12). History no longer understood as a universal force but as a set of particular frames where every people's past, heritage and situation is brought into focus became the only available source for objective and principled "knowledge of what is truly human, of man as man" (17). Strauss bitterly dismissed this view.…”

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“…This world is, in Shakespeare's ontology, a domain ruled by an efficient-not final-causality (Spinoza) akin to the (fatal) natural law posited by Stoics like Seneca. 17 Another intimation of this secular temporality occurs when Macbeth alludes to "olden time / Ere human statute purged the gentle weal", of times when crimes were performed and the victims "would die, / And there an end" (3.4.74-79). Now, instead, complains Macbeth, the dead rise again and push kings from their stools.…”

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“Beyond this ignorant present”: the poverty of historicism in Macbeth

Heffernan

2016

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Although Macbeth is not stricto sensu a history play, its dominant concern with the paralogisms of time forces the reader to reconsider its relationship with history. Moreover, the scarcely noted fact that the debate for and against historicism-encouraged by thinkers like Hegel, Lukács, Strauss, Aron or Popper-tends to capitalize on the hermeneutic affordances of a play like Macbeth, brings the historical (perhaps historicist) provocation of the play all the more sharply into focus. Self-validating prophecy emerges, in this reconsideration, as the pivotal, paralogic speech act in a play that reads like a parody of verification. By exposing the logical complicity between providentialist prophecy and historicist interpretation, this article contends that Shakespeare obtained, in Macbeth, ironic-critical distance from contemporary historiographic teleology, and that he thus sheltered himself in advance from the progressive-moralist, at bottom apocalyptic, arrogance of neo-historicist critics like Stephen Greenblatt or Richard Wilson. In the final analysis, Macbeth gets the last word, one no oracular predictive or postdictive consummation is able to efface. This article is published as part of a collection to commemorate the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare's death.

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“…81 Gregory Inwood observes that the Commission "reflected the disharmony in Canadian political discourse"; it became a site of contention "between advocates of the crumbling nationalist mode of politics and the proponents of a more continentalist economic regime." 82 Despite the fact that the majority of submissions to the Commission at least loosely supported the former mode, and despite the 1984 pre-election assertions of Conservative Party leader Brian Mulroney that he opposed free trade between Canada and the US, the Mulroney government began negotiating a free trade agreement with that country in 1985. 83…”

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Canadian Science Policy and the Retreat from Transformative Politics: The Final Years of the Science Council of Canada, 1985-1992

Clowater

2013

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The Science Council of Canada (1966-1992) operated as an ‘arms-length’ agency providing science policy advice and recommendations to the federal government. The Council was always a voice for state interventionism. In the late 1970s, it turned to the politically sensitive issue of industrial policy and advocated a nationalistic, ‘transformative politics’ through its defense of technological sovereignty. An examination of its research and policy recommendations, and the controversies they excited, reveals that the Council’s struggle against new policy trends in its final years paralleled larger transitions in public perceptions of the role of government in Canadian society. Its 1992 dissolution symbolized Canada’s reorientation from a state-directed to a market-oriented approach to science and technology policy-making. This paper reviews the Council’s guiding philosophy and discusses its history within two larger contexts: the Canadian political debate over continentalism, and evolving conceptions of science, technology, and innovation, and the prospects for their management.

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