George Grant and the Subversion of Modernity : : Art, Philosophy, Religion, Politics and Education / / ed. by Arthur Davis.
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 duri...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016] ©1996 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (346 p.) |
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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- Note on George Grant's Unpublished Writings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