De la pertinence historiographique d'une trajectoire individuelle : Lionel Groulx, la Confédération et le Canada français

From the double perspective of biography and intellectual history, this article attempts to demonstrate the relevance of studying Lionel Groulx's stance on Confederation as one of the most prominent French-Canadian nationalist thinkers between the 1910s and the Quiet Revolution of the 1960s. Th...

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Published in:The Canadian historical review 2017-07, Vol.98 (2), p.297
Main Author: Bock, Michel
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
20th century
Canadian history
Clergy
Groulx, Lionel
History of ideas
Ideology
Intellectuals
Nationalism
Political factors
Politics
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Summary:From the double perspective of biography and intellectual history, this article attempts to demonstrate the relevance of studying Lionel Groulx's stance on Confederation as one of the most prominent French-Canadian nationalist thinkers between the 1910s and the Quiet Revolution of the 1960s. Through Groulx, it is indeed possible to penetrate the French-Canadian intellectual "field" in order to better understand its configuration, and to better appreciate the factors at work in shaping it throughout the twentieth century. An approach committed to historicizing his ideology by situating it in its intellectual, political, and religious context also enables the historian to better understand its internal tensions as the result of the interaction between its constants and Groulx's contacts with other actors within the intellectual field. By studying Groulx, both as a product and a critic of a specific "normative system" (Giovanni Levi), scholars can avoid the pitfall of essentializing Groulxism and ahistorically reducing it to a simple juxtaposition of contradictions. [web URL: http://www.utpjournals.press/doi/abs/10.3138/chr.98.2.Bock]
ISSN:0008-3755
1710-1093