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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| 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 (495 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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