TY  - GEN
T1  - George Grant : selected letters
A1  - Grant, George Parkin, 1918-1988
A2  - Christian, William, 1945-
LA  - English
PP  - Toronto, Ont.
PB  - University of Toronto Press
YR  - 1996
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocn300294714
AB  - 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.
OP  - 402
CN  - B995.G74 A4 1996eb
SN  - 9781442675292
SN  - 1442675292
SN  - 9781442675285
SN  - 1442675284
SN  - 1282003305
SN  - 9781282003309
SN  - 0802007570
SN  - 0802078079
SN  - 9780802007575
SN  - 9780802078070
KW  - Grant, George Parkin, : 1918-1988 : Correspondence.
KW  - Grant, George, : 1918-1988 : Correspondance.
KW  - Grant, George Parkin, : 1918-1988.
KW  - Philosophers, Modern : Canada : Correspondence.
KW  - Philosophes modernes : Canada : Correspondance.
KW  - LITERARY COLLECTIONS.
KW  - Letters.
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY : General.
KW  - PHILOSOPHY : History & Surveys : Modern.
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY : Philosophers.
KW  - Philosophers, Modern.
KW  - Canada.
KW  - Philosophy.
KW  - Philosophy & Religion.
KW  - Ressources Internet.
KW  - Personal correspondence.
ER  -