George Grant and the Subversion of Modernity : : Art, Philosophy, Religion, Politics and Education / / ed. by Arthur Davis.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Andrew, Edward,; Beiner, Ronald,; Bradshaw, Leah,; Christian, William,; Davis, Arthur,; Forbes, H.D.,; Graham, Nita,; Grant, George,; Grant, Sheila,; Greenspan, Louis,; Owen, Gerald,; Schmidt, Lawrence,
• HerausgeberIn: Davis, Arthur,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©1996
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (346 p.)

George Grant's mystique as a public philosopher is due in part to the seemingly contradictory political stances he took through the years. His opposition to the Vietnam war and his linking of liberalism with technological progress and imperialism brought him favour among the political left during the 1960s. Then, in the following decade, his opposition to abortion earned him allies on the political right, despite his rejection of limitless capitalist growth and free trade with the US. This collection of original essays reveals the complex philosophic, artistic, and religious sources underlying Grant's public positions of nationalism, pacifism, and conservatism.The collection begins with Grant's previously unpublished writing on Céline. This is a bold and vigorous Grant, writing on a topic about which he is passionate and deeply informed. Grant's own work is followed by two pieces that explore his devotion to Céline, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Weil, and Strauss also receive special attention here. Many of the essays draw on manuscripts and notes left unpublished by Grant, thus contributing new perspectives to the ongoing discussion of his work.The focus of this book is the unknown George Grant, namely, the philosophic, religious, and artistic inspiration behind his well-known public positions. Here we discover the great modern thinkers who animated Grant, and whose writings occupied him for much of his life.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Note on George Grant's Unpublished Writings -- Contributors -- Chronology -- 1. Introduction: Why Read George Grant? -- Art -- 2. Celine's Trilogy -- 3. Why Did George Grant Love Celine? -- 4. George Grant's Celine: Thoughts on the Relationship of Philosophy and Art -- Philosophy -- 5. George Grant, Nietzsche, and the Problem of a Post-Christian Theism -- 6. Justice and Freedom: George Grant's Encounter with Martin Heidegger -- 7. George Grant and Leo Strauss -- Politics -- 8. The Unravelling of Liberalism -- 9. Love and Will in the Miracle of Birth: An Arendtian Critique of George Grant on Abortion -- 10. George Grant and the Theology of the Cross -- 11. George Grant on Simone Weil as Saint and Thinker -- Education -- 12. Teaching against the Spirit of the Age: George Grant and the Museum Culture -- 13. Selected Letters on Universities and Education by George Grant -- Index