May 23, 2011 | Author - Ron Dart
George Grant was drawn to Martin Heidegger for the simple reason that Heidegger was, probably, one of the most severe critics of the modern way of doing philosophy and the western understanding of mind and what it means to think. Heidegger was convinced that...
Oct 16, 2010 | Author - Ron Dart
The language of Red Toryism became popular in the mid-1960s when Gad Howoritz suggested that George Grant was a Red Tory. The publication and immediate success of Grant’s, Lament for a Nation: The Defeat of Canadian Nationalism (1965), made it abundantly clear that...
Aug 30, 2010 | Author - Eric H. Janzen
This shredded flag hangs low like the burdened shoulders of a visionary watching the vision of his passion fade 'what is necessary is not necessarily good' says the wind as it moves the flag aside, passing with the memory of resistance, the...
Aug 15, 2010 | Author - Ron Dart
George Grant was Canada’s most significant public philosopher. Graeme Nicholson[1]George Grant has been called one of the most important public intellectuals in Canada in the latter half of the 20th century. He had a wide ranging mind and imagination that...
Jun 27, 2010 | Author - Ron Dart
Introduction: It's 55 years this year (1955-2010) since Ginsberg's Howl was published, and 45 years (1965-2010) since Grant's Lament was published. This article on Ginsberg's Howl and Grant's Lament appears in print in Ron Dart's...
