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Ian started following the work of Bryan Smyth, University of Memphis, Philosophy.
Ian started following the work of Gregory Cameron, Wilfrid Laurier University, Cultural Studies.
Faculty Member, Humanities
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About
Who is Ian Angus?
Ian Angus is currently Professor of Humanities at Simon Fraser University. He emigrated from England to Canada in 1958 and currently lives in East Vancouver with his wife Viviana and daughter Cassandra.
While an undergraduate student at the University of Waterloo in the late 1960s and early 1970s, he became involved in the politics of the New Left. While this influence has changed and developed, it has never left his work. Ian’s intellectual formation began at the same time with the 20th century European philosophies of phenomenology and the Frankfurt school of critical theory.
His dissertation from the Graduate Programme in Social and Political Thought at York University was revised into a first book, Technique and Enlightenment (1984) which probed the historical sources of the ‘instrumental reason’ that legitimates the modern advance of technology and argued for a form of technology assessment that is not only ethical but pertains also to the construction of human identity. A significant turn in Angus’ work occurred when he began a critical engagement with the history of English Canadian social and political thought, which resulted in A Border Within: National Identity, Cultural Plurality and Wilderness (1997), which was widely reviewed in both the academic and popular press.
Ian writes on philosophy, politics, social movements, technology, communication and the university.
This Ian Angus is not: The Ian Angus who co-edited George Orwell’s Collected Works. The Ian Angus who is a communications consultant and provided evidence in the case of Ernst Zundel. The Ian Angus who is the author of Canadian Bolsheviks and edits Climate and Capitalism. The Ian Angus who died as a boy and was buried in the Atheists' Cemetery in Rome. The Ian Angus who was an Ontario MPP for Sudbury. The Ian Angus who is a Toronto doctor. Etc. Etc. “Ian Angus” is rather like the Scots version of “John Smith,” or the Sikh “Satvinder Singh,” or the Irish “Patrick Mooney,” or the Latin American “Juan Sanchez,” or …
Recent Books:
Love the Questions: University Education and Enlightenment. Winnipeg: Arbeiter Ring, 2009.
Identity and Justice. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2008.
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