Reading George Grant in the 21st Century

ISBN-13: 9783031448881 / Angielski

Tyler Chamberlain

Spis treści

Chapter 1: Introduction

Part I: Conservatism and Political Philosophy

Chapter 2: Tradition or Progressivism? Edmund Burke and George Grant: Partners in Challenging Imperialism and Modernization?

Chapter 3: Grant, Anglo-Canadian Toryism and the deep critique of liberal modernity

Chapter 4: George Grant & Simone Weil: Armor Fati and Consenting to Otherness

Chapter 5: George Grant, Russel Kirk, and the American Technological Republic

Chapter 6: Title TBA

Chapter 7: Roger Scruton and George Grant: Ecology and The New Left

Chapter 8: The Competing Deus ex Machinas of George Grant and Heideggerian Political Thought

Chapter 9: Still Lamenting? Grantian Conservatism and Nationalism in the 21^st Century

Part II: Democracy, Identity, and Global Politics

Chapter 10: Grant, Fukuyama, and the Abyss at the End of History

Chapter 11: George Grant and the Return of the Nation

Chapter 12: The Democratic Recession as Reversal or Fate of Modernity? A Grantian Perspective

Chapter 13: Between the Pincers: George Grant, Totalitarianism, and the Role of Political Science

Chapter 14: George Grant’s Reflection on Revolution

Chapter 15: Does progress need liberalism anymore? On George Grant’s Critique of technology

Chapter 16: George Grant and the Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Triumph of Technology

O autorze

Tyler Chamberlain lectures in political science and philosophy at various institutions including Trinity Western University and Kwantlen Polytechnic University. His primary research interests are early modern political theory and Canadian political thought. He earned his Ph.D in Political Science from Carleton University in 2018.

Blurb

“It is hard to believe that George Grant died over thirty years ago. He was the foremost combination of personality and intellect of his age. A commanding presence, he led many Canadians, and others, to a deeper understanding of their country and the world. This fine collection of original essays reminds us that we need his philosophical guidance as strongly now as we did when he published Lament for a Nation sixty years ago.”                                                  - William Christian, biographer and friend. Author, George Grant: A Biography, Editor Selected Letters, Time as History, Philosophy in the Mass Age, The George Grant Reader (with Sheila Grant).

“George Grant was one of the most important and insightful Canadian thinkers of the 20^th century. However, his ideas about nationalism, technology and the role of the university are more important now than ever. This volume of essays reinvigorates Grant as a contemporary thinker both of and ahead of his time.”

-  David Edward Tabachnick, Nipissing University. Author of The Great Reversal: How We Let Technology Take Control of the Planet  

George Grant (1918-1988) was one of Canada’s foremost public philosophers. Though his thought arose out of reflection on the history of political philosophy, pressing political concerns were never far from view. He was particularly adept at locating the causes of political developments in philosophical movements that were centuries in the making. This book reassesses his ideas in light of philosophical and political developments of recent decades, including the resurgence of nationalism, criticisms of globalization and technocracy, and the ideological realignments having a particularly noticeable effect on right-wing politics. The contemporary reader of Grant is thus able to reflect on his broader criticisms of modernity from within a slightly different historical articulation of modernity. Though George Grant died in 1988, the philosophical themes in his work remain relevant into the 21^st century.

Tyler Chamberlain lectures in political science and philosophy at various institutions including Trinity Western University and Kwantlen Polytechnic University. His primary research interests are early modern political theory and Canadian political thought. He earned his Ph.D in Political Science from Carleton University in 2018.