George Grant : : A Biography / / William Christian.

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 portra...

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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Acknowledgments --   |t Chronology --   |t Preface --   |t 1. They'd prefer ice-cream --   |t 2. Work for King and Country --   |t 3. Willie's boy --   |t 4. Somebody might like me for myself --   |t 5. An ambitious little pragmatist --   |t 6. Mysterious forces within man --   |t 7. Take what you want said God Take it and pay for it --   |t 8. It was easy to lose courage --   |t 9. Exploring the universe --   |t 10. The solid basis of qualifications --   |t 11. Listening to Mozart - I felt such love --   |t 12. Out of the shadows into truth --   |t 13. No satisfactory compromise was possible --   |t 14. Old and dirty and fat --   |t 15. The fifth column --   |t 16. Simone Weil --   |t 17. Lament --   |t 18. A lone wolf --   |t 19. Intimations of deprival --   |t 20. The botched and the bungled --   |t 21. Museum culture --   |t 22. Caught up in fates --   |t 23. Christ's care is for all --   |t 24. Out of Christian certainties --   |t 25. No great disaster --   |t Epilogue --   |t Notes --   |t Sources --   |t Archival and interview sources --   |t Works mentioned in text or notes --   |t Selected secondary sources --   |t Bibliography of George Grant's Publications --   |t Index --   |t Photo credits 
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