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George Woodcock, the Glossary

George Woodcock (May 8, 1912 – January 28, 1995) was a Canadian writer of political biography and history, an anarchist thinker, a philosopher, an essayist and literary critic.^[1]

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Anarcho-pacifists
Canadian anarchists
Canadian anti-war activists
Canadian pacifists
Historians of anarchism
People educated at Sir William Borlase's Grammar School

Aesthetics

Aesthetics (also spelled esthetics) is the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature of beauty and the nature of taste; and functions as the philosophy of art.

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Alan Twigg

Alan Twigg, CM has received the Order of Canada, as a prolific journalist, historian, biographer, website-builder, film maker, community-builder and athlete.

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Aldous Huxley

Aldous Leonard Huxley (26 July 1894 – 22 November 1963) was an English writer and philosopher.

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Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is against all forms of authority and seeks to abolish the institutions it claims maintain unnecessary coercion and hierarchy, typically including the state and capitalism.

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Anarchism (Woodcock book)

Anarchism: A History of Libertarian Ideas and Movements is a 1962 book about the history of anarchism by George Woodcock.

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Anarchism in Canada

Anarchism in Canada spans a range of anarchist philosophy including anarchist communism, green anarchy, anarcho-syndicalism, individualist anarchism, as well as other lesser known forms.

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Anglican ministry

The Anglican ministry is both the leadership and agency of Christian service in the Anglican Communion.

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Associated Press

The Associated Press (AP) is an American not-for-profit news agency headquartered in New York City.

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British Columbia

British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada.

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Buddhism

Buddhism, also known as Buddha Dharma and Dharmavinaya, is an Indian religion and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE.

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Camp Angel

Camp Angel was Civilian Public Service (CPS) camp number 56, located from 1942 to 1945 near Waldport and the coast in the Siuslaw National Forest and Lincoln County, in western Oregon.

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Canadian Literature (journal)

Canadian Literature is a quarterly peer-reviewed journal of criticism and review, founded in 1959 and owned by the University of British Columbia.

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Canadians

Canadians (Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada.

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CBC.ca

CBC.ca is the English-language online service of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

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Civil disobedience

Civil disobedience is the active, and professed refusal of a citizen to obey certain laws, demands, orders or commands of a government (or any other authority).

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Clerk

A clerk is a white-collar worker who conducts record keeping as well as general office tasks, or a worker who performs similar sales-related tasks in a retail environment.

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Concordia University

Concordia University (Université Concordia) is a public English-language research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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Conscientious objector

A conscientious objector is an "individual who has claimed the right to refuse to perform military service" on the grounds of freedom of conscience or religion.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Essay

An essay is, generally, a piece of writing that gives the author's own argument, but the definition is vague, overlapping with those of a letter, a paper, an article, a pamphlet, and a short story.

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Essex

Essex is a ceremonial county in the East of England, and one of the home counties.

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Fascism

Fascism is a far-right, authoritarian, ultranationalist political ideology and movement, characterized by a dictatorial leader, centralized autocracy, militarism, forcible suppression of opposition, belief in a natural social hierarchy, subordination of individual interests for the perceived good of the nation or race, and strong regimentation of society and the economy.

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Fontana Modern Masters

The Fontana Modern Masters was a series of pocket guides on writers, philosophers, and other thinkers and theorists who shaped the intellectual landscape of the twentieth century.

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Freedom Defence Committee

The Freedom Defence Committee was a UK-based organisation set up on 3 March 1945 to "uphold the essential liberty of individuals and organisations, and to defend those who are persecuted for exercising their rights to freedom of speech, writing and action."Orwell, Sonia and Angus, Ian (eds.).

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George Fetherling

Douglas George Fetherling (born 1949) is a Canadian poet, novelist, and cultural commentator. George Woodcock and George Fetherling are 20th-century Canadian poets and Canadian male poets.

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George Orwell

Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950) was a British novelist, poet, essayist, journalist, and critic who wrote under the pen name of George Orwell, a name inspired by his favourite place River Orwell. George Woodcock and George Orwell are theorists on Western civilization.

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Great Western Railway

The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the southwest, west and West Midlands of England and most of Wales.

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Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817May 6, 1862) was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher. George Woodcock and Henry David Thoreau are anarchist writers.

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Henry Walter Bates

Henry Walter Bates (8 February 1825 in Leicester – 16 February 1892 in London) was an English naturalist and explorer who gave the first scientific account of mimicry in animals.

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Herbert Read

Sir Herbert Edward Read, (4 December 1893 – 12 June 1968) was an English art historian, poet, literary critic and philosopher, best known for numerous books on art, which included influential volumes on the role of art in education.

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Homage to Catalonia

Homage to Catalonia is a 1938 memoir by English writer George Orwell, in which he accounts his personal experiences and observations while fighting in the Spanish Civil War.

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How the Poor Die

"How the Poor Die" is an essay first published in 1946 in Now by the English author George Orwell.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is an American nonprofit digital library founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle.

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Ivan Avakumović

Ivan Avakumović (also spelled Ivan Avakumovich; 22 August 1926 – 16 July 2013) was a Serbian-Canadian historian who was Professor Emeritus of History at the University of British Columbia. George Woodcock and Ivan Avakumović are 20th-century Canadian historians.

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Leo Tolstoy

Count Lev Nikolayevich TolstoyTolstoy pronounced his first name as, which corresponds to the romanization Lyov. George Woodcock and Leo Tolstoy are anarchist writers, anarcho-pacifists and social philosophers.

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Literary criticism

A genre of arts criticism, literary criticism or literary studies is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature.

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London Letters

The "London Letters" were a series of fifteen articles written by George Orwell when invasion by Nazi Germany seemed imminent, and published in the American left-wing literary magazine Partisan Review.

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Mahatma Gandhi

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (ISO: Mōhanadāsa Karamacaṁda Gāṁdhī; 2 October 186930 January 1948) was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule.

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Manitoba

Manitoba is a province of Canada at the longitudinal centre of the country.

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Martin Luther King Jr.

Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister, activist, and political philosopher who was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in 1968.

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Molson Prize

The Thomas Henry Pentland Molson Prize for the Arts is awarded by the Canada Council for the Arts.

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Morley College

Morley College is a specialist adult education and further education college in London, England.

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Now (1940–1947 magazine)

NOW was a British political and literary periodical founded in 1940 by George Woodcock, Retrieved 19 August 2013.

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Order of Canada

The Order of Canada (Ordre du Canada) is a Canadian state order and the second-highest honour for merit in the system of orders, decorations, and medals of Canada, after the Order of Merit.

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Oregon

Oregon is a state in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States.

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Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 185430 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. George Woodcock and Oscar Wilde are Libertarian socialists.

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Pacifism

Pacifism is the opposition or resistance to war, militarism (including conscription and mandatory military service) or violence.

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Partisan Review

Partisan Review (PR) was a left-wing small-circulation quarterly "little magazine" dealing with literature, politics, and cultural commentary published in New York City.

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Peter Kropotkin

Pyotr Alexeyevich Kropotkin (9 December 1842 – 8 February 1921) was a Russian anarchist and geographer known as a proponent of anarchist communism. George Woodcock and Peter Kropotkin are anarchist writers and social philosophers.

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Philosophy

Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, value, mind, and language.

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Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809 – 19 January 1865) was a French socialist,Landauer, Carl; Landauer, Hilde Stein; Valkenier, Elizabeth Kridl (1979). George Woodcock and Pierre-Joseph Proudhon are anarchist writers, Libertarian socialists and theorists on Western civilization.

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Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (Woodcock biography)

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon is a biography of the French anarchist written by George Woodcock and first published in 1956 by Macmillan.

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Poet

A poet is a person who studies and creates poetry.

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Poetry

Poetry (from the Greek word poiesis, "making") is a form of literary art that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, literal or surface-level meanings.

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Queen's Quarterly

Queen's Quarterly is a Canadian quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal of cultural studies that was established in 1893 by, among others, George Munro Grant, Sanford Fleming, and John Watson, all of Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.

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Reginald Caton

Reginald Ashley Caton (1897–1971) was an English publisher.

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Royal Society of Canada

The Royal Society of Canada (RSC; Société royale du Canada, SRC), also known as the Academies of Arts, Humanities, and Sciences of Canada (French: Académies des arts, des lettres et des sciences du Canada), is the senior national, bilingual council of distinguished Canadian scholars, humanists, scientists, and artists.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Woodcock

Also known as Woodcock, George.

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George Woodcock, the Glossary

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See also

Anarcho-pacifists

Canadian anarchists

Canadian anti-war activists

Canadian pacifists

Historians of anarchism

People educated at Sir William Borlase's Grammar School

References