Jun 9, 2006 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Robin Mathews (Vancouver: Northland Publications, 2004). Review by Ron Dart. “I’m not saying Robin Mathews is nearly as good as he’s going to be. But he’s so far ahead of the ruck, right now, that if he wanted to look back at them, he’d have to use binoculars.”...
Jun 9, 2006 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
By Katherine Morrison (Toronto: Second Story Press, 2003). Review by Ron Dart. The ongoing and ever ripe debate about the meaning and significance of the Canadian identity, often and inevitably so, turns to the discussion and dialogue about Canadians and Americans....
Jun 9, 2006 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Stanley Hauerwas (Grand Rapids: Brazo Press, 2001). Reveiw by Ron Dart. There is little doubt that Stanley Hauerwas is one of the most significant and controversial theologians at the present time. It is quite apt and fitting, therefore, that Hauerwas should be...
Jun 9, 2006 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
Edited by Arthur Davis (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002). George Grant (1918–1988) was probably the most important Christian High Tory philosopher, theologian, educator, political theorist and activist in Canada in the twentieth century. The Collected Works...
Jun 9, 2006 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
By Charles Tayler (Harvard University Press 2002.) Reviewed by Ron Dart. Charles Taylor is very much a significant Canadian court philosopher of the Enlightenment Liberal project. Taylor, as an apologist and defender of Enlightenment Liberalism, strategically so,...
Jun 9, 2006 | Author - Ron Dart, Book Reviews
"I suppose all my life I have fought against obscurantism! For me the true intellectual is a simple person who knows how to be close to nature and to ordinary people. I tend to therefore shy away from academic poets and academic critics. They miss the...
