The fourth and final volume of the Collected Works of George Grant contains his writings from the last period of his life and includes unpublished material such as lectures, interviews, and excerpts from his notebooks.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
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- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 191
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9781442687677 9780802099303
- LCCN
- B995
- LCCN Item number
- G72 2000 v.4
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- CaBNVSL
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- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xxix, 1110 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00224632 (OCoLC)651914470 (CaOOCEL)430746
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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- CaBNVSL
Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Acknowledgments 12
- Permissions 14
- Chronology 16
- Introduction to Volume 4: 1970–1988 20
- Time as History 34
- Appendix: Dialogue on the Death of God with Charles Malik 93
- ‘Revolution and Tradition’ 110
- ‘Jelte Kuipers – An Appreciation’ 124
- ‘Address to History Society, University of Toronto’ 128
- Preface to Heritage: A Romantic Look at Early Canadian Furniture 138
- ‘Nationalism and Rationality’ 142
- ‘Technique(s) and Good’ (excerpts) 149
- ‘Lessons of the Vietnam War’ on Cross-Country Check-Up, with Laurier LaPierre 175
- Interview with Ramsay Cook on Impressions 179
- Exchange with Peter Gzowski on This Country in the Morning 191
- ‘Ideology in Modern Empires’ 208
- English-Speaking Justice: The Josiah Wood Lectures, 1974 221
- ‘Knowing and Making’ 300
- ‘“The computer does not impose on us the ways it should be used”’ 311
- Brief Comment in Time (Canadian edition) on Trudeau’s ‘New Values’ 330
- ‘Obedience’ 332
- Miscellaneous Notes on Technology, Good, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Other Subjects 344
- Foreword to The Liberal Idea of Canada: Pierre Trudeau and the Question of Canada’s Survival 361
- ‘No Alternative to Moderation’ 366
- Review of Nietzsche’s View of Socrates 371
- ‘Conversations’ from George Grant in Process 376
- ‘Faith and the Multiversity’ 416
- ‘Diefenbaker: A Democrat in Theory and in Soul’ 434
- ‘Inconsistency Ruled in Canada’s 70s’ 439
- Convocation Address, University of Toronto 446
- ‘The Battle between Teaching and Research’ 452
- ‘Céline’s Trilogy’ 457
- ‘Céline: Art and Politics’ 504
- ‘Balance in Broadcasting’ 520
- ‘The Case against Abortion’ 524
- ‘Why Read Rousseau?’ 528
- Appendix: ‘History and Justice’ 535
- ‘Dennis Lee – Poetry and Philosophy’ 542
- Foreword to Neo-Vedanta and Modernity 551
- ‘Justice and Technology’ 556
- ‘A Giant Steps Down’ 567
- ‘Professionalism’ 569
- ‘Man and Beast,’ a Review of Science, God, and Nature in Victorian Canada 578
- ‘Confronting Heidegger’s Nietzsche’ 581
- ‘An Interview with George Grant’ 593
- Technology and Justice 614
- Thinking about Technology 620
- Faith and the Multiversity 638
- Nietzsche and the Ancients 670
- Research in the Humanities 682
- The Language of Euthanasia 686
- Abortion and Rights 695
- Review of If You Love This Country: Facts and Feelings on Free Trade 733
- ‘Sacrifice and the Sanctity of Life’ (with Sheila Grant) 737
- ‘The Triumph of the Will’ 757
- ‘George Grant and Religion’ – A Conversation with William Christian 767
- George Grant on Simone Weil 802
- Editorial Introduction 802
- ‘Some Comments on Simone Weil and the Neurotic and Alienated’ 812
- ‘Introduction to Simone Weil’ 817
- ‘Introduction to the Reading of Simone Weil’ 836
- Excerpts from Graduate Seminar Lectures, 1975–6 845
- Review of Simone Weil: A Life 882
- ‘In Defence of Simone Weil,’ a Review Essay on Simone Weil: A Modern Pilgrimage 886
- Excerpt from Interview by David Cayley – Primarily on Simone Weil 898
- Book Reviews Published in the Globe and Mail 912
- Review of The Collected Works of Walter Bagehot: Volumes V–VIII, The Political Writings 913
- Review of The Gladstone Diaries: Volumes III and IV 918
- Review of Essays on Politics and Society, Volumes XVIII and XIX of The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill 924
- ‘Torture in Greece,’ a Review of The First Torturer’s Trial 1975 930
- Review of The Idea File of Harold Adams Innis 934
- Review of The Great Code: The Bible and Literature 937
- Review of Benjamin Disraeli: The Early Letters, Volumes I and II 942
- Review of Outsiders: A Study in Life and Letters 947
- ‘Literature and the Uncertainty of Modern Criticism,’ a Review of The World, the Text and the Critic 951
- Some Letters to the Editor of the Globe and Mail 955
- Lectures at McMaster University in the 1970s – A Selection 960
- Undergraduate Lectures 962
- ‘Five Lectures on Christianity’ 962
- ‘The Beautiful and the Good’ 981
- ‘Resurrection’ 985
- ‘Two Ways of Teaching Plato and Augustine in the Modern World’ 987
- Graduate Lectures 992
- ‘Nietzsche’: Excerpts from 1974–5 993
- ‘Heidegger’: Excerpts from 1972–3 and 1978–9 1050
- Excerpt from Interview by David Cayley on Heidegger 1067
- ‘Kant’: Excerpts from 1973–4 and 1977–8 1075
- ‘Strauss’: Excerpt on Political Philosophy 1104
- ‘Aristotle’: Excerpts on Politics 1110
- Appendix A: Grant’s Undergraduate and Graduate Courses, 1970–80 1113
- Appendix B: List of Notebooks, 1970s and 1980s 1114
- Appendix 1: List of Radio and Television Broadcasts by George Grant – CBC (1971–89) 1116
- Appendix 2: Editorial and Textual Principles and Methods Applied in Volume 4 1118
- Index 1122
- A 1122
- B 1123
- C 1124
- D 1125
- E 1126
- F 1127
- G 1127
- H 1128
- I 1130
- J 1130
- K 1131
- L 1131
- M 1132
- N 1133
- O 1134
- P 1135
- Q 1136
- R 1136
- S 1137
- T 1139
- U 1140
- V 1140
- W 1141
- Y 1141
