George Grant : : Selected Letters / / George Grant; ed. by William Christian.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: Grant, George,
• HerausgeberIn: Christian, William,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©1996
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (402 p.)

George Grant was one of Canada's foremost political and religious thinkers. In his published writings, Grant was a careful and guarded writer, but in his letters he was frank and spontaneous, expressing ideas and opinions that he hesitated to convey in print. Grant's letters are remarkable for their continuity - about twelve hundred letters survive from 1923 to his death in 1988 - and for their quality. For more than fifty years, he favoured his correspondents with his observations about international relations, Canadian politics, religion, literature, and philosophy. William Christian has selected some three hundred letters, postcards, telegrams, and journal entries which reveal much about Grant - both the troubled man and the daring thinker.His correspondence begins with the letters from his early years at Upper Canada College and his undergraduate days at Queen's University, followed by letters from London during the Second World War, when he struggled with the conflict between his pacifism and his sense of duty. The middle section includes letters that describe his life at Dalhousie in the 1950s, his resignation from York University, and his hopes to create in the department of religion at McMaster University a kind of fifth column that would preserve a university within the multiversities he thought had taken over higher education in Canada. The later letters feature his remorseless attacks on what he felt were the perfidies of Trudeau during his long tenure as prime minister.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Acknowledgments -- Note on the Text -- Correspondents -- Prologue 1910–22 -- Childhood 1923–36 -- Queen’s 1936–9 -- War 1939–42 -- Adult Educator 1942–5 -- God and Marriage 1945–50 -- Dr. Grant 1950–9 -- The Years of Lament 1960–70 -- McMaster II: Beleaguered 1970–80 -- Dalhousie: Unhappy Return 1980–4 -- God Be Thanked: Retirement 1984–8 -- Index