I am very struck, in reading The Ethics of Authenticity by Charles Taylor, to see a flawed assumption that colours
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Several years ago, I developed an undergraduate History course for a university in upstate New York. The course was based
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There is nothing quite like taking up a favourite book again, and entering the subjective world of the characters. Once
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In a recent blog, I mentioned that empathy and intersubjectivity remain works in progress and are never quite completed. Indeed,
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According to the Oxford English Dictionary, empathy is “the ability to imagine and understand the thoughts, perspective, and emotions of
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As a follow-up to my previous blog on the use and misuse of metaphor, in which I mention Friedrich Nietzsche’s
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Picture a two-year-old child at play. She puts on her five-year-old brother’s toy safety goggles, then crawls under a bed
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The feature image at the top of this blog is from the titles at the beginning of my film, as
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I was struck, in taking the ferry from Quebec City to Lévis last evening, how life has a different pace
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Watching the crazy Quebec Carnival canoe race yesterday, where men and women get out of their canoes, and run along
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J’ai rédigé l’article ci-dessous pour le numéro de décembre 2022 de la revue parisienne Études canadiennes (merci à la rédactrice-en-chef,
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I went to Lévis today, to do some archival research for upcoming writing projects. I cannot believe our luck to
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