Overview
- Analyzes George Grant’s legacy as Canada’s foremost public philosophy
- Considers Grant’s philosophy in the context of contemporary debates, such as nationalism and religion
- Underlines the import of Grant’s thought decades after his death
Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism (PASTCL)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Conservatism and Political Philosophy
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Democracy, Technology, and Global Politics
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About this book
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 21st century.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Reading George Grant in the 21st Century
Editors: Tyler Chamberlain
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Classical Liberalism
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44889-8
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-44888-1Published: 16 February 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-44891-1Due: 18 March 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-44889-8Published: 15 February 2024
Series ISSN: 2662-6470
Series E-ISSN: 2662-6489
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 299
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Political Theory, Political Philosophy, Political Science, Philosophy, general