| Description |
1 online resource (522 pages) |
| Contents |
Intro -- 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 -- 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 -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- PHOTO CREDITS |
| Summary |
George Grant's Lament for a Nation and Technology and Empire inspired a generation of Canadians. This readable biography revels in the life of a fascinating religious and political thinker, warts, gossip and all |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Grant, George Parkin, 1918-1988.
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| SUBJECT |
Grant, George Parkin, 1918-1988. fast (OCoLC)fst01434191 |
| Subject |
Philosophers -- Canada -- Biography
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Philosophers.
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Canada.
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781442675285 |
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1442675284 |
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