Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Permissions xiii
5. Chronology: George Grant’s Life xv
6. Introduction to Volume 4: 1970–1988 xix
7. Time as History 1
8. Revolution and Tradition 79
9. Jelte Kuipers – An Appreciation 93
10. Address to the History Society, University of Toronto 97
11. Preface to Heritage: A Romantic Look at Early Canadian Furniture by Scott Symons and John de Visser 107
12. Nationalism and Rationality 111
13. Excerpts from ‘Technique(s) and Good’ 118
14. Lessons of the Vietnam War – Cross-Country Check-Up 144
15. Ramsay Cook Interviews George Grant 148
16. Exchange with Peter Gzowski on This Country in the Morning 160
17. Ideology in Modern Empires 177
18. English-Speaking Justice 190
19. Knowing and Making 269
20. ‘The computer does not impose on us the ways it should be used’ 280
21. Brief Comment in Time Magazine on Trudeau’s ‘New Values’ 299
22. ‘Obedience,’ edited by Gerald Owen 301
23. Miscellaneous Notes on Technology, Good, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and Other Subjects 313
24. Foreword to The Liberal Idea of Canada: Pierre Trudeau and the Question of Canada’s Survival by James Laxer and Robert Laxer 330
25. No Alternative to Moderation 335
26. Review of Nietzsche’s View of Socrates by Werner J. Dannhauser 340
27. Conversations from George Grant in Process 345
28. Faith and the Multiversity (1978) 385
29. Diefenbaker: A Democrat in Theory and in Soul 403
30. Inconsistency Ruled in Canada’s 70s 408
31. Convocation Address, University of Toronto 415
32. The Battle between Teaching and Research 421
33. ‘Céline’s Trilogy,’ edited by Sheila Grant 426
34. Céline: Art and Politics 473
35. Balance in Broadcasting 489
36. The Case against Abortion 493
37. Why Read Rousseau? 497
38. Dennis Lee – Poetry and Philosophy 511
39. Foreword to Neo-Vedanta and Modernity by Bithika Mukerji 520
40. Justice and Technology 525
41. A Giant Steps Down 536
42. Professionalism 538
43. ‘Man and Beast,’ a Review of Science, God, and Nature in Victorian Canada by Carl Berger 547
44. Confronting Heidegger’s Nietzsche 550
45. An Interview with George Grant 562
46. Technology and Justice 583
47. Review of If You Love This Country: Facts and Feelings on Free Trade, edited by Laurier LaPierre 702
48. ‘Sacrifice and the Sanctity of Life’ by Sheila and George Grant 706
49. The Triumph of the Will 726
50. ‘George Grant and Religion’ – A Conversation with William Christian 736
51. George Grant on Simone Weil 771
52. Book Reviews Published in the Globe and Mail 881
53. Lectures at McMaster University in the 1970s – A Selection
54. Undergraduate Lectures 929
55. Graduate Lectures 961
56. Appendix A: Grant’s Undergraduate and Graduate Courses, 1970–80 1082
57. Appendix B: List of Notebooks, 1970s and 1980s 1083
58. Appendix 1. Radio and Television Broadcasts by George Grant, 1971–89 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation 1085
59. Appendix 2. Editorial and Textual Principles and Methods Applied in Volume 4 1087
60. Index 1091