03823nam 2200649 450 991045547820332120200520144314.01-282-00330-597866120033011-4426-7529-210.3138/9781442675292(CKB)2420000000004081(OCoLC)300294714(CaPaEBR)ebrary10200853(SSID)ssj0000297437(PQKBManifestationID)11228017(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000297437(PQKBWorkID)10334997(PQKB)10943744(DE-B1597)464501(OCoLC)979634099(DE-B1597)9781442675292(MiAaPQ)EBC3251298(MiAaPQ)EBC4671550(Au-PeEL)EBL4671550(CaPaEBR)ebr11257256(OCoLC)958565307(EXLCZ)99242000000000408120160926h19961996 uy 0engur||#||||||||txtccrGeorge Grant selected letters /edited with an introduction by William ChristianToronto, [Ontario] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,1996.©19961 online resource (427 p.)HeritageIncludes index.0-8020-7807-9 0-8020-0757-0 Front matter --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 --IndexGeorge 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 1950's, 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.PhilosophersCanadaCorrespondenceElectronic books.Philosophers191Grant George, authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut700278Christian WilliamMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910455478203321George Grant2464582UNINA