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ISBN: 9781442675285

Content: George Grant's Lament for a Nation and Technology and Empire inspired a generation of Canadians. This critically acclaimed biography of one of Canada?s most controversial philosophical, religious, and political thinkers draws on his many letters, private papers, and published writings to portray a man who has been described as `the most formidable combination of personality and intellect Canada has produced.?.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Acknowledgments -- , Chronology -- , Preface -- , 1. They'd prefer ice-cream -- , 2. Work for King and Country -- , 3. Willie's boy -- , 4. Somebody might like me for myself -- , 5. An ambitious little pragmatist -- , 6. Mysterious forces within man -- , 7. Take what you want said God Take it and pay for it -- , 8. It was easy to lose courage -- , 9. Exploring the universe -- , 10. The solid basis of qualifications -- , 11. Listening to Mozart - I felt such love -- , 12. Out of the shadows into truth -- , 13. No satisfactory compromise was possible -- , 14. Old and dirty and fat -- , 15. The fifth column -- , 16. Simone Weil -- , 17. Lament -- , 18. A lone wolf -- , 19. Intimations of deprival -- , 20. The botched and the bungled -- , 21. Museum culture -- , 22. Caught up in fates -- , 23. Christ's care is for all -- , 24. Out of Christian certainties -- , 25. No great disaster -- , Epilogue -- , Notes -- , Sources -- , Archival and interview sources -- , Works mentioned in text or notes -- , Selected secondary sources -- , Bibliography of George Grant's Publications -- , Index -- , Photo credits

Language: English

DOI: 10.3138/9781442675285

URL: https://doi.org/10.3138/9781442675285

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Format: 1 online resource (522 pages)

ISBN: 9781442675285 (e-book)

Additional Edition: Print version: Christian, William. George Grant : a biography. Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 1994, c1993 ISBN 9780802078605

Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books.

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Format: 1 online resource (522 p.)

ISBN: 1-281-99745-5 , 9786611997458 , 1-4426-7528-4

Content: George Grant was one of Canada's foremost political and religious thinkers. In his published writings, Grant was a careful and guarded writer, but in his letters he was frank and spontaneous, expressing ideas and opinions that he hesitated to convey in print. Grant's letters are remarkable for their continuity - about twelve hundred letters survive from 1923 to his death in 1988 - and for their quality. For more than fifty years, he favoured his correspondents with his observations about international relations, Canadian politics, religion, literature, and philosophy. William Christian has selected some three hundred letters, postcards, telegrams, and journal entries which reveal much about Grant - both the troubled man and the daring thinker. His correspondence begins with the letters from his early years at Upper Canada College and his undergraduate days at Queen's University, followed by letters from London during the Second World War, when he struggled with the conflict between his pacifism and his sense of duty. The middle section includes letters that describe his life at Dalhousie in the 1950s, his resignation from York University, and his hopes to create in the department of religion at McMaster University a kind of fifth column that would preserve a university within the multiversities he thought had taken over higher education in Canada. The later letters feature his remorseless attacks on what he felt were the perfidies of Trudeau during his long tenure as prime minister.

Note: Includes index. , ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Note on the Text""; ""Correspondents""; ""Prologue 1910�22""; ""Childhood 1923�36""; ""Queen's 1936�9""; ""War 1939�42""; ""Adult Educator 1942�5""; ""God and Marriage 1945�50""; ""Dr Grant 1950�9""; ""The Years of Lament 1960�70""; ""McMaster II: Beleaguered 1970�80""; ""Dalhousie: Unhappy Return 1980�4""; ""God Be Thanked: Retirement 1984�8""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W"" , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8020-7860-5

Language: English

Keywords: Personal correspondence. ; Ressources Internet. ; Electronic books.

DOI: 10.3138/9781442675285