Publisher's Synopsis
A decade after his death, George Grant continues to stimulate, challenge and inspire. During his lifetime his voice reached a broad cross-section of Canadians, urging us to think more deeply about matters of justice and responsibility. He wrote on subjects as diverse as technology, abortion, Canadian politics and nationalism, and the war in Vietnam, and was claimed equally by rightist and leftist causes. Perhaps his highest achievement has been in creating a bridge from Canadian politics to the sources of our intellectual traditions in the ancient world.;Grant's legacy includes six books and over 200 articles, as well as numerous broadcast transcripts, an extensive correspondence and a wealth of unpublished lectures, essays and notes. In this projected 8-volume series, Grant's published and unpublished writings will be brought together for the first time along with his complete correspondence. The texts are annotated, and each volume includes an introduction to the period that it covers. The series will not only make it possible to see the whole pattern of Grant's thought, but will also invite a reconsideration of the nature and importance of his work.;"Volume 1 (1933-1950)" reveals Grant's mind as it develops through his student years. Included are his early reviews, a brief journal written as he recovered from tuberculosis in 1942, and his earliest social and political writings about Canada and international affairs. The most important of Grant's formative years were those spent at Oxford after the war, culminating in the writing of his DPhil thesis on the Scottish philosopher John Oman. In this dissertation, published here in full, we see the main themes of Grant's thought worked out for the first time.
